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Inflectional Simplicity
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7- What are the verbs that do not follow the inflection conjunction rules?
These irregular verbs include be, begin, bid, bleed, catch, deal, drive, eat, feel,
find, forget, go, grow, hang, have, hide, leave, lose, meet, pay, prove, ride, ring,
seek, send, shall, shine, show, sing, spin, steal, take, tear, wear, and win.
10- What do Hans H. Hock and Brian D. Joseph say about it?
They say “the speakers of languages such as English are quite happy without all
those case endings, while speakers of modern ‘case-rich’ language such as
Finnish or Turkish are just as happy with them.”