Chapter 6: The Noun: Gender Flashcards
1
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What is the Masculine Gender?
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A noun that denotes a male.
2
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What is the Feminine Gender?
A
A noun that denotes a female.
3
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What is a Common Gender?
A
A noun that denotes either a male or female.
4
Q
What is the Neuter Gender?
A
A noun that denote a thing without life, that is neither male nor female.
5
Q
How are objects without life personified?
A
The object are spoken of as if they were living beings.
6
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How does the Masculine Gender get applied to personification?
A
It is applied to objects with remarkable strength and violence.
7
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How does the Feminine Gender get applied to personification?
A
It is applied to objects with remarkable beauty, gentleness, and gracefulness.
8
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What are the three ways to form Feminine Nouns?
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- By using an entirely different word, i.e. Boy, girl, or Buck, doe, etc.)
- By adding a syllable (-ess, -ine, -trix, -a, etc.) Author, authoress, or Lion, lioness.
- By placing a word before or after; as Grandfather, grandmother.
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