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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Neuter noun and common noun
Could someone give me a proper definition between a neuter noun and a common noun?
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In English the concept of 'neuter' noun is not really relevant, as grammatical gender and natural ***/gender coincide pretty exactly. It's possible to say that, for example, 'boy' is masculine, 'girl' is feminine and 'book' is neuter, but we don't have to learn this; we know it as soon as we can distinguish between animate and inanimate and between male and female animate things. We distinguish between common nouns which name general items, for example 'boy', 'girl', 'city', and proper nouns , which name specific items, for example, 'Luke', 'Emma', 'Prague'.
- In English the concept of 'neuter' noun is not really relevant, as grammatical gender and natural ***/gender coincide pretty exactly.
- It's possible to say that, for example, 'boy' is masculine, 'girl' is feminine and 'book' is neuter, but we don't have to learn this; we know it as soon as we can distinguish between animate and inanimate and between male and female animate things.
- We distinguish between common nouns which name general items, for example 'boy', 'girl', 'city', and proper nouns , which name specific items, for example, 'Luke', 'Emma', 'Prague'.
- We use a capital for the initial letter of proper nouns.
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In English the concept of 'neuter' noun is not really relevant, as grammatical gender and natural ***/gender coincide pretty exactly. It's possible to say that, for example, 'boy' is masculine, 'girl' is feminine and 'book' is neuter, but we don't have to learn this; we know it as soon as we can distinguish between animate and inanimate and between male and female animate things.
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