Definition: A grammatical category in which a noun, pronoun, article and adjective is masculine, feminine or neuter. Genders in English are extremely simple, and in any case the gender of a noun only affects its pronoun and possessive adjective.
In nouns
In general there is no distinction between masculine, feminine and neuter in English nouns. However, gender is sometimes shown by different forms or different words.
1. Masculine gender:
A noun is said to be in the Masculine gender if it refers to a male character or member of a species.
Man, lion, hero, boy, king, horse and actor are nouns of masculine gender.
Example:
• A boy is playing in the play-ground.
2. Feminine gender:
A noun is said to be in the feminine gender if it refers to a female member of a species.
Woman, lioness, heroine, girl, mare, niece, empress, cow and actress are few of the feminine-gender nouns that we use.
Example:
• A girl is playing in the play-ground
3. Common gender:
A noun is said to be in Common gender if it refers to a member of species which can be a male or a female.
Child, student, friend, applicant, candidate, servant, member, parliamentarian and leader are few of the common-gender nouns.
Example:
• A child is playing in the play-ground.
4. Neuter gender:
A noun is said to be in the neuter gender if it refers to a member of a species which is neither a male or a female.
Normally nouns referring to life less objects are in neuter nouns.
Chair, table, tree, star, mountain, street, book, car, paper, pencil and computer are few of the neuter nouns which We use regularly.
Example:
• Computer has brought about drastic changes in our lives.
