Neuter
English has three genders for nouns and
pronouns: masculine,
feminine, and neuter. The associated singular pronouns are
he, she and it. Unless obviously male (e.g.,
man, boy, bull) or female (e.g., lady, vixen, sow), nouns tend to be neuter
by default. An animal can be referred to as it, or he or she when the sex is known. Large machines,
such as ships and trains, which - by default - are neuter, are sometimes
affectionally called she. For ease, he is
sometimes used in writing to represent he and her. Likewise, his is used for
his
and her.
| Bag
/ House / Man /
Waitress / Wall / Hen [show
me the neuter ones] |
See also:
Glossary of grammatical terms
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