Some of them are formed with the inflection -ed
In the sphere of the verb, however, many complications arise, as there is no such regularity among the past tense and participle II forms. The few exceptions (such as tooth - teeth, goose - geese, child - children, ox - oxen In nouns is used with the majority of count nouns. What is most characteristic of these inflections in comĀparison with Russian is that they are more unified. They are the plural and the Genitive case endings of some nouns, the comĀparative degree endings of some adjectives and adverbs personal inflections of verbs are confined to the third person singular and the opposition of the forms was - were. The English language has comparatively few grammatical inflections. The grammatical system of English, like that of any other language, possesses its own peculiar features.