GENDER._English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

GENDER is the distinction of sex. Nouns have three genders, the

masculine, the feminine, and the neuter.

The _masculine gender_ denotes males; as, a _man_, a _boy_.

The _feminine gender_ denotes females; as, a _woman_, a _girl_.

The _neuter gender_ denotes things without sex; as, a _hat_, a _stick_.

_Neuter_ means _neither:_ therefore neuter gender signifies neither

gender; that is, neither masculine nor feminine. Hence, neuter gender

means _no gender_. Strictly speaking, then, as there are but two sexes,

nouns have but _two_ genders; but for the sake of practical convenience,

we apply to them three genders, by calling that a gender which is _no_

gender. The English and the pure Persian, appear to be the only

languages which observe, in the distinction of sex, the natural division

of nouns.--The genders of nouns are so easily known, that a farther

explanation of them is unnecessary, except what is given in the

following

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