THE GENDER NOUN:

 

THE GENDER NOUN:

 

    As we have already studied that nouns are names of persons, place and things. These personas or things can be male, female or can be none of these. Nouns which refers to gender of the noun is called gender noun.

 

Examples:

Boy (Tiger, Poet, Peacock)

Girl (Tigress, Poetess, Peahen)

 

You can see the pair of words mentioned above in first row there is male noun of the pair and in the 2^nd row there is female noun of the pair

 

There are four types of gender noun.

i-               Masculine Noun

A noun that denotes a male animal, Human is said to be of the Masculine Gender noun and He, his, etc. is used with these.

Examples:

Zeeshan is an engineer.

A dog is barking in the street.

 

ii-              Feminine Noun

A noun that indicates a female animal, human, is said to be of the Feminine Gender noun and pronouns like she, her, it etc. is used with them.

 

Example:

 

Her name is Julia and she is a doctor.

 

Lioness were jumping over the trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

iii-           Common Noun

A noun that is used for both male and a female is said to be of the Common Gender noun.

 

Examples

 

Parent, child, friend, pupil, servant, thief, relation, enemy, cousin, person, orphan, student, baby, monarch, neighbor, infant.

 

iv-           Neuter Noun  

 

A noun that indicates a thing that is neither male nor female is said to be of the Neuter Gender noun.

 

Examples

 

Tree, Computer, Book, Laptop