Gender of Nouns Chandler Unified School District名词钱德统一学区.pptVIP

Gender of Nouns A noun is a word used to denote a person, place, thing, or idea. PERSON: John, girl, dentist PLACE: garden, university, Venezuela THING: book, car, tomato IDEA: liberty, despair, intelligence In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine. MA S C U L I N E F EMI N I N E el chico .......... boy la chica ......... girl el jardín ........ garden la uva ……. grape el miedo ....... Fear la libertad ...... liberty The idea that nouns have gender seems perfectly natural when the noun stands for aliving creature. This is because in English, livin