The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1898 - 304 Seiten |
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... neuter gender , i.e. of neither masculine nor feminine gender . Some nouns are used to denote objects of either sex , such as parent , sovereign painter , attendant . These nouns are said to be of common gender . 83. Comparing gender in ...
... neuter gender , i.e. of neither masculine nor feminine gender . Some nouns are used to denote objects of either sex , such as parent , sovereign painter , attendant . These nouns are said to be of common gender . 83. Comparing gender in ...
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... neuter . French has no neuter ; consequently all its nouns are of the masculine or of the feminine gender . Our English method is simpler and more rational . To a very limited extent the correspondence of gender with sex in English is ...
... neuter . French has no neuter ; consequently all its nouns are of the masculine or of the feminine gender . Our English method is simpler and more rational . To a very limited extent the correspondence of gender with sex in English is ...
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... neuter nouns of one syllable , such as swine , sheep , deer , folk , underwent no change of their singular form when they were used in the plural number . 2. Child - er - en is a double plural , the er being one sign of the plural and ...
... neuter nouns of one syllable , such as swine , sheep , deer , folk , underwent no change of their singular form when they were used in the plural number . 2. Child - er - en is a double plural , the er being one sign of the plural and ...
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... neuter nouns wrong and talk of animalculæ or effluviæ instead of saying animalcula and effluvia . Most of these nouns from dead languages can now be used with English plural forms : we can say formulas , memorandums , dogmas , as well ...
... neuter nouns wrong and talk of animalculæ or effluviæ instead of saying animalcula and effluvia . Most of these nouns from dead languages can now be used with English plural forms : we can say formulas , memorandums , dogmas , as well ...
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... Neuter nouns of the Fourth Declension , like cornu , have an inflexion only in the genitive of the singular number , cornus : all the other singular forms are the same as the nominative . Yet we speak of the accusative , dative , and ...
... Neuter nouns of the Fourth Declension , like cornu , have an inflexion only in the genitive of the singular number , cornus : all the other singular forms are the same as the nominative . Yet we speak of the accusative , dative , and ...
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