English lesson Eight gender

Welcome to the English lesson, lesson eight…

In this lesson I’m going to explain you gender:

What is gender?

 Gender is a system of differentiating noun and pronouns as masculine, feminine, neuter or common.

Masculine gender: A noun that denotes a male is called a masculine gender.

For Example:-Boy, Man, Brother, Hero, Cock, Bull, Lion.

Feminine gender: A noun that denotes a female is called a feminine gender.

For Example:-Girl, Woman, Sister, Heroine, Hen, Cow, Lioness.

Common gender: A noun that denotes a gender is either a female or male is called as a common gender.  

For Example:-Parent, Child, Servant, Cousin, Friend, Crowd.

Neuter gender: A noun that denotes a gender that is neither a female nor a male is called as a neuter gender.

For Example:-Pen, Book, Tree, Room.

There are three ways of forming feminine noun.

1) By using entirely different word as,

          Boy                   Girl

          Bull                    Cow

          Cock                 Hen

          King                 Queen

2) The second way of forming a feminine gender is by adding a syllable ess.

For Example:

                Lion          lioness

               Steward     stewardess

               Actor          actress

Adding ess after cropping the vowel from actor.

3) By placing some letters before or after the masculine gender.

For Example:

      Man           woman

     Hero            heroine

    Servant         maid servant