Select the gender-nouns in the following sentences, and give the gender
of each:—
1. Mary and her friend went for a sail on the lake.
2. The hero of this story is a young boy.
3. Great authors are seldom seen by the people.
4. Tell my mother that her other sons shall comfort her old
age.
5. He fled with his wife and child.
6. My sister went home with her aunt.
7. Both a prince and a poet were there.
8. Little Effie shall go with me to-morrow to the green,
And you’ll be there, too, mother, to see me made the Queen:
For the shepherd lads on every side ’ill come from far away,
And I’m to be Queen of the May, mother, I’m to be Queen of
the May.—_Tennyson._
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=LESSON XV.=