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Latest post Tue, Nov 13 2007 11:51 PM by CalifJim. 1 replies.
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Anonymous  +  440316 Thu, 08 Nov 07 06:53 PM
   
 How is called the change of verbs linguistically?
 How is called the change of adjectives and adverbs linguistically?

many thanks in advance for those terms.
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CalifJim  +  442317 Tue, 13 Nov 07 11:51 PM
If I understand your question correctly, the general term is inflection.

wait, waited, waiting; fast, faster, fastest.  These are inflected forms.

Specifically for verbs, the display of the various inflected forms is called a conjugation.

I wait; you wait; he waits; we wait; you wait; they wait.
I waited; you waited; ...

I have waited; ...

and so on.

CJ
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