Nouns and gender

In Grammar-Nouns, there are FOUR GENDERS.

1. Masculine gender:

A noun is said to be in the Masculine gender if it refers to a male character or member of a species.

Man, lion, hero, boy, king, horse, and actor are nouns of masculine gender.

Example:

• A boy is playing in the playground.

• Hero of the movie is not a native of this country.

In these sentences, the words “boy” and “hero” are masculine-gender nouns.

The next in the Noun-Gender is the feminine gender.

2. Feminine gender:

A noun is said to be in the feminine gender if it refers to a female member of a species.

Woman, lioness, heroine, girl, mare, niece, empress, cow, and actress are a few of the feminine-gender nouns that we use.

Example:

• A girl is playing in the playground.

• Heroine of the movie is not a native of this country.

In these sentences, the words “girl” and “heroine” are feminine-gender nouns.

The next in the Noun-Gender are common gender.

3. Common gender:

A noun is said to be in Common gender if it refers to a member of species which can be a male or a female.

Child, student, friend, applicant, candidate, servant, member,

parliamentarian and leader are a few of the common-gender nouns.

Example:

• A child is playing in the playground.

• A Parliamentarian should have command over his language.

In these sentences, the words, “child” and “parliamentarian” are nouns of common gender.

The next in the Noun-Gender is the neuter gender.

4. Neuter gender:

A noun is said to be in the neuter gender if it refers to a member of a species that is neither a male nor a female.

Normally nouns referring to lifeless objects are neuter nouns.

Chair, table, tree, star, mountain, street, book, car, school,
paper, pencil, and computer are a few of the neuter nouns which We use regularly.

Example:

• Computer has brought about drastic changes in our lives.
• Tree is cleansing the air.
• Stars are not visible in the daytime.
• Books are our best friends.

In these sentences, the words, “computer”, “tree”, “stars” and “books” are neuter-gender nouns.

Most English nouns do not have grammatical gender. Nouns refer to people who do not have separate forms for men (male form) and women (female form). However, some nouns traditionally had different forms. Nowadays, people usually prefer more neutral forms.