Noun : Gender

Noun: Number

Noun :- A Noun is the name of a person, place, animal, thing, quality, action, feeling etc.

A Noun can be One or More than one in number. So, there are two numbers in English language.

1. Singular Number
2. Plural Number

Singular Number: A Noun that denotes one person, place or a thing – is said to be in
                              Singular number.

Plural Number:   A Noun that denotes more than person, place or a thing – is said to be
                             in Plural number.

Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Book	Books	Watch	Watches
Door	Doors	Match	Matches
Law	Laws	Box	Boxes
Hero	Heroes	Key	Keys
Mango	Mangoes	Boy	Boys
Baby	Babies	Child	Children
City	Cities	Man	Men
Brother-in-law	Brothers-in-law	Father-in-law	Fathers-in-law

Plural can be made in several ways :-

• To make a Singular noun Plural we, generally, add ‘s’ to the Singular noun.
• By adding ‘es’ to the Singular noun of the nouns ending in ‘ch’, ‘s’, ‘sh’, ‘ss’, ‘x’.
• To make singular nouns that end with the letter ‘f’, ‘fe’ plural we change the ‘f’ or ‘fe’ to ‘ves’.
• To make singular nouns that end with the letter ‘y’ plural we change the ‘y’ to ‘-ies’.
• Compound nouns formed their plural by changing its key word. Some plural are irregular.
• Some nouns do not change in the plural.

Noun: Gender

Gender :- The word – gender- refer to sex. Normally, there are two sexes – male sex
                and female sex.

 

Kinds of Gender

There are four kinds of Gender.

Masculine Gender  : the male sex                   : Man, Boy, King, Father, Sir etc.
Feminine Gender   : the female sex                 : Woman, Girl, Mother, Madam etc.
Common Gender   : either of the two sexes    : Child, Student, Teacher, etc.
Neuter Gender      : neither of the two sexes  : Book, Chair, Pen, Computer etc.


Definition

Gender	Definition
Masculine Gender	Words that stand for males are masculine gender.
Feminine Gender	Words that stand for females are feminine gender.
Common Gender	Nouns that may refer to either the male or female gender are of the common gender.
Neuter Gender	Words that stand for things without life are called neuter gender.

There are few ways in which a feminine noun can be formed from a masculine noun.

• Sometimes the masculine gender can be changed into the feminine gender by adding ‘–ess’.

Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Poet	Poetess	Host	Hostess	Heir	Heiress

• Sometimes by dropping the vowel of the last syllable and adding ‘–ess’.

Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Actor	Actress	Tiger	Tigress	Director	Directress

• By changing or adding a word before or after the masculine.

Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Milkman	Milkmaid	Land-lord	Land-lady	Postman	Post woman

• Sometimes the feminine gender is a completely different word.               

Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Boy	Girl	Man	Woman	Sir	Madam

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