23 Verbs to Use for the Word genders

To things inanimate they are applied only figuratively; and the question is, whether the figure always necessarily changes the gender of the antecedent noun.

Balducci uses the feminine gender in writing about this work, which justifies us in thinking that it may have been a Madonna.

17."In personifications regard must be had to propriety in determining the gender.

he and she, when placed before or prefixed to nouns merely to denote their gender, appear to be used adjectively; as, "The male or he animals offered in sacrifice.

7.Nouns of multitude, when they convey the idea of unity or take the plural form, are of the neuter gender; but when they convey the idea of plurality without the form, they follow the gender of the individuals which compose the assemblage.

"The relative is parsed by stating its gender, number, case, and antecedent, (the gender and number being always the same as those of the antecedent) thus, 'The boy who.'

3.A great many of our grammars define gender to be "the distinction of sex," and then speak of a common gender, in which the two sexes are left undistinguished; and of the neuter gender, in which objects are treated as being of neither sex.

"As to those animals which are less common, or which, on account of the places they inhabit, fall less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or which their diminutive size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English, employ a single noun to designate both genders, the masculine and the feminine."Fosdick cor.

4. Many of them confessedly exclude the neuter gender, though their authors afterwards admit this gender.

"We distinguish the genders, or the male and the female sex, in four different ways.

4. Many of them confessedly exclude the neuter gender, though their authors afterwards admit this gender.

(I thought it favored that gender most) "Sir, I think you are mistook.

"The pronoun singular of the third person hath three genders.

There, the adjectives lost their terminations to indicate gender and case, and the article "the" ceased to be declined.

Is it not plain, that if we know who speaks or writes, who hears or is addressed, we know also the gender of the pronouns which are applied to these persons?

Before any one could speak Anglo-Saxon correctly, he had first to learn the fanciful genders that were attached to nouns: "trousers" was feminine; "childhood," masculine; "child," neuter.

During this period the English gradually lost these fanciful genders which the German still retains.

For example: in the following text, it is just as easy to discern the genders of the pronouns, as the cases of the nouns; and both are known and asserted to be what they are, upon principles of mere inference: "For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?

It tells Zál that it had nursed him like a father, and therefore I have, in this place, adopted the masculine gender, though the preserver of young ones might authorize its being considered a female.

To such words, some grammarians have applied the unnecessary and improper term common gender.

3. Many of them expressly confine gender, or the genders, to nouns only.

Some of them, confounding gender with sex, deny that there are more than two genders, because there are only two sexes.

criticised confounded with sex by some writers; others otherwise confuse the matter Common gender, of the old grammarians, the term objectionable with respect to

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  genders