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Finding inflections, Finding confusables – Franklin DMM-440 User Manual

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Finding Inflections

Inflections are the changes in a word’s
form such as case, gender, number, tense,
person, mood, or voice. Verbs have more
inflections than other parts of speech.

1. Press

CLEAR

.

2. Type a word. For example,

type mean.
If you want, press

ENTER

to see its

dictionary entry.

3. Press

INFL

(the red key).

4. Highlight a part of speech, if

needed, and press

ENTER

. For ex-

ample, select mean (verb).

5. Press

INFL

(red) or hold

and press

DN

to see more in-

flections, if any.
To see a previous inflection, hold

and press

UP

.

6. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Finding Confusables

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Confusables are words that are often
confused or that sound alike but are
spelled differently. Rain, reign, and rein
are examples of Confusables. Not every
word will have Confusables.

1. Press

CLEAR

.

2. Type a word. For example,

type air.
If you want, press

ENTER

to see its

dictionary entry.

3. Hold

and press

C

.

4. Press

ENTER

to start a highlight.

5. Highlight a Confusable or its

meaning and do one of the
following:
To...

Press...

find a dictionary entry

ENTER

find a thesaurus entry

THES

find inflected forms

INFL

find phrases

PHRASE

add word to your list

LIST