How To Use Grammatical gender In A Sentence
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Grammatical gender is not a logical necessity in a language.
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Grammatical gender is not a logical necessity in a language.
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All these possibilities exemplify the phenomenon of grammatical gender because items are classified according to their form.
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But what a cool correlation between language and genetics this could be - if the absence of grammatical gender and ergativity in Persian could tip us off to population mixtures that explain features in western Iran.
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The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender.
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Modern English has also lost its system of classifying nouns into three grammatical genders, as still occurs in German.
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From even the most rudimentary knowledge of French, for instance, we know that nouns have a grammatical gender that is either masculine or feminine; in German, grammatical gender allows for a neuter as well; but English speakers, who tolerate feminine pronouns of reference for things like automobiles (She runs like a top), whales of either sex (Thar she blows), and vessels (I sailed her in the Bermuda race this year), enjoy what they regard as the most sensible system, namely, natural gender and regard German das Mädchen as exceedingly odd -- though possibly the oddness is a function of the particular Mädchen in question.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2
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The grammatical gender of nouns has been completely eliminated from English.
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