Here his form for the word Virtue is"Virtue is a common substantive, of the neuter gender, of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case.

He should here have said"Vice is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case: and is the subject of degrades; according to the rule which says, 'A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a verb, must be in the nominative case.'

The learner is here taught to say, "This sentence is incorrect; because which is a pronoun of the neuter gender, and does not agree in gender with its antecedent man, which is masculine.

In the former, truly, which should be who; but not because which is "of the neuter gender;" but because the application of that relative to persons, is now nearly obsolete.

Burn has four; active, passive, neuter, and substantive.

12.If we admit the class of active-intransitive verbs, that of verbs neuter will unquestionably be very small.

To be, to exist, to remain, to seem, to lie, to sleep, to rest, to belong, to appertain, and perhaps a few more, may best be called neuter; though some grammarians, as may be inferred from what is said above, deny that there are any neuter verbs in any language.

To be, to exist, to remain, to seem, to lie, to sleep, to rest, to belong, to appertain, and perhaps a few more, may best be called neuter; though some grammarians, as may be inferred from what is said above, deny that there are any neuter verbs in any language.

John Grant, in his Institutes of Latin Grammar, recognizes in the verbs of that language the distinction which Murray supposes to be so "very difficult" in those of our own; and, without falling into the error of Sanctius, or of Lily, respecting neuter verbs, judiciously confines the term to such as are neuter in reality.

John Grant, in his Institutes of Latin Grammar, recognizes in the verbs of that language the distinction which Murray supposes to be so "very difficult" in those of our own; and, without falling into the error of Sanctius, or of Lily, respecting neuter verbs, judiciously confines the term to such as are neuter in reality.

15.Some verbs may be used in either an active or a neuter sense.

In the sentence, "Here I rest," rest is a neuter verb; but in the sentence, "Here I rest my hopes," rest is an active-transitive verb, and governs hopes.

What is the neuter gender?

and what, neuter?

What is a neuter verb?

What is the compound form of conjugating active or neuter verbs?

"If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of transitive or intransitive active, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood."Ib., 15th Ed., p. 30.

"Words taken independent of their meaning are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender.

"Then neither of these [five] verbs can be neuter.

The neuter pronoun it may be applied to a young child, or to other creatures masculine or feminine by nature, when they are not obviously distinguishable with regard to sex; as, "Which is the real friend to the child, the person who gives it the sweetmeats, or the person who, considering only its health, resists its importunities?"Opis.

"These have an active signification, those which come from neuter verbs being excepted."Ib., p. 233.

"A neuter verb becomes active, when followed by a noun of the same signification with its own.

"The neuter pronoun it is applied to all nouns and pronouns: as, It is he; it is she; it is they; it is the land.

"Active and neuter verbs may be conjugated by adding their present participle to the auxiliary verb to be, through all its variations.

For example, this short line, "I lean upon the Lord," is parsed by both of these gentlemen thus: "I, the first personal pronoun, masculine, or feminine, singular, the nominativelean, a verb, neuter, first person singular, present, indicativeupon, a prepositionthe, an article, the definiteLord, a noun, masculine, singular, the objective, (governed by upon.)"Lennie's Principles of English Gram., p. 51; Bullions's, 74.