Foundations of Grammar 1: What is gender
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Gender is a grammatical category that classifies nouns as feminine, masculine, or neuter in some languages. In English, nouns do not have grammatical gender, but can denote biological gender. In other languages, nouns have an inherent grammatical gender that impacts the spelling and conjugation of associated adjectives, pronouns, and verbs, rather than just denoting biological gender. Learning the gender of each noun is important as grammatical gender often cannot be predicted from the meaning or biological associations of the word.
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Foundations of Grammar 1: What is gender
- 1. FOUNDATIONS OF GRAMMAR Podcast 1: What is gender?
- 2. What is meant by gender? Gender is a grammatical category which exists in some languages and which classifies nouns as feminine, masculine or, in certain languages, neuter.
- 3. What is gender? • In English, grammatical gender is not important and nouns do not have a gender. They may, however, denote a gender: girl/boy, waitress/waiter, actress/actor, lion/lioness, prince/princess etc. • Ex. Paul came home; he was tired, and I was glad to see him.
- 4. What is gender? • In English there are no grammatical implications of the fact that one word exists for the female version of a person, animal, or job and another version exists for its male counterpart, beyond the use of appropriate pronouns when required – for example, when describing a male person we use the masculine pronouns he/him/his. Example presentation title Page 4
- 5. What is gender? In some languages other than English, nouns can actually have a gender rather than merely denoting it. In these languages, gender can have implications not only for the spelling and pronunciation of the noun itself and any pronouns replacing it, but also for adjectives and verbs referring to it. Why is gender important?
- 6. What is gender? • When learning languages other than English in which gender is an important grammatical concept, it is a mistake to think that you can use biological gender to determine grammatical gender: it most cases, the grammatical gender of nouns cannot be predicted (for example, in Italian, Spanish and French, the nouns equivalent to “person” are always feminine nouns – even if you’re referring to a male person) How do I know the gender of a noun?
- 7. Thank You Example presentation title Page 7
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