Masculine and Feminine Word List : Gender In English

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Masculine and Feminine Word (What Is Gender,Types Of Gender In English Grammar) :- इस पोस्ट के माध्यम से आज हम English Grammar के एक बहुत अच्छे टॉपिक Masculine and Feminine Word List, What Is Gender के बारे में विस्तार से पढ़ेंगे। आप अच्छे से इन Words के बारे में अध्ययन करें। ताकि आगे आने वाले विभिन प्रतियोगी परीक्षाओ जैसे Rajasthan High Court Group D, RPSC 1st Garde , 2nd Garde , Rajasthan Lab Assistant , Rsmssb Stenographer , Rsmssb Pharmacist , junior instructor , NTT , Mila Supervisor , Agriculture Supervisor, LSA , sucha Syavk , IA , RAS , PTI Bank Exam,SSC,Railway आदि में आप अच्छे नम्बर प्राप्त कर सको। तो आइये देखते है के बारे में एक महत्वपूर्ण जानकारी।

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What Is Gender

Gender is a category of noun. A noun can have a masculine gender, a feminine gender, or a neuter gender.Easy Examples of Gender – man (masculine gender),woman (feminine gender).

Types Of Gender In English Grammar

English divides nouns and pronouns into four genders in this way:-

Masculine	All males (and only males) are said to belong to the masculine gender. (examples: boy, man, landlord, god, tiger, horse, rooster, stag, he, etc)
Feminine	All females (and only females) belong to this gender category. (examples: girl, woman, goddess, landlady, tigress, mare, hen, doe, hind, she, etc)
Common	Nouns and pronouns that belong to this gender are either male or female, but we are not concerned about it. (examples: teacher, child, worker, baby, infant, human being, person, etc)
Neuter	All nouns and pronouns to which maleness or femaleness doesn’t apply belong to this gender category. (Material things: stone, table, gold, book; all abstract nouns: e.g. childhood, independence, intelligence, chairmanship, etc.)

A noun that denotes the male sex is called the masculine gender.
A noun that denotes the female sex is called the feminine gender.
A noun that denotes either a male or a female sex is called common gender.
A noun that denotes a lifeless thing is called neuter gender.

Gender in Modern Usage

Nowadays some words in the Masculine Gender are used as Common Gender. Everybody doesn’t do it, but if you follow this trend, you will be considered modern.

Actor – Used for both male and female—traditionally, actor and actress.
Poet for both poet and poetess. The purpose is to avoid gender bias about which people are very conscious today.
Governor – for both male and female. This is perhaps because the woman ruler of a province would not like the word ‘governess’ to be used for her lest people misunderstand that she is someone employed in a rich family to teach its children.
Priest – for both male and female. A modern ordained clergywoman would not like to be called a ‘priestess.’ I think, the word reminds people of temple prostitution in ancient cultures.