Gender of nouns

FIELD STUDY 3

1. GENDER OF NOUNS GENDER OF NOUNS Prepared by: MICHAELLA B. OÑATE BSED-III English

2. WHAT IS A NOUN? A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things  common noun , or to name a particular one of these  proper noun .

3. EXAMPLES OF NOUNS school Osias Colleges, Inc. cow pen Dr. Arsenio P. Novesteras Ph. D hospital

4. 4 TYPES OF GENDER NOUNS MASCULINE GENDER FEMININE GENDER COMMON GENDER NEUTER GENDER

5. MASCULINE GENDER Nouns that tells about male sex belongs to masculine gender like Man, Loin, Hero, Boy, King etc.

6. EXAMPLES: The boy has a sheep named Sky. He owns a good few ram .

7. FEMININE GENDER Nouns that tells about female sex belong to feminine gender like Woman, Cow, Hen, Girl, Queen, Actress etc.

8. EXAMPLES: The girl is riding on a horse. The mare runs fast as she can to win.

9. COMMON GENDER Common Gender refers to member of species that can be male or female. These can be either male or female like teacher, child, worker, friends, cousin, neighbor etc.

10. EXAMPLES: A   teacher  doesn't have to be smart The  doctor  seemed tired and in a hurry.

11. NEUTER GENDER On neuter gender, maleness and femaleness doesn’t apply. These are neither male nor female like book, table, pen, gold, school and rock . These are usually non-living things.

12. EXAMPLES: The scissors are not sharp. This   glue  does not adhere to plastic.