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The Gender of the Noun

Posted on June 19, 2023November 2, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - grammar, nouns, parts of speechTags - a boy- friend, a girl-friend, actor, actress, brother, father, feminine gender, he, he-wolf, kitchen, kitchenette, lion, lioness, man, masculine gender, mother, neuter gender, policeman, policewoman, she, she-wolf, sister, the gender of the noun, woman

Nouns can be classified into different genders. However, unlike some other languages, English does not have grammatical gender for nouns. In English, nouns are not inherently masculine, feminine, or neuter.

Common & Possessive Cases of Nouns

Posted on June 19, 2023May 8, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - grammar, nouns, parts of speechTags - animate objects, celestial bodies, distance expressions. value expressions, for order's sake, inaminate objects, possession, the boy's stick, the case of the noun, the common case, the possessive case, the roof of the house, these teachers' bags, time expressions

The noun has two cases: the common and the possessive. The noun in the common case does not take any ending.
The possessive case of the noun can be formed by different ways,….

Collective, Material and Abstract Nouns

Posted on June 15, 2023May 7, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - grammar, nouns, parts of speechTags - a group, a single entity, abstract nouns, army, beauty, brick, cattle, chair, collection, collective nouns, concrete, family, flock, herd, honesty, idea, justice, material, material nouns, people, police, poultry, senses, state, states, team, vermin, water, wood

collective nouns represent a group of individuals or a category of animals, material nouns refer to physical objects, abstract nouns refer to ideas, concepts, states