Example sentences for: neuter

How can you use “neuter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mr. Delaney is a victim of the confusion so often experienced by Latin students between the gerund, which is a neuter noun, active in meaning, and the gerundive, which is an adjective of similar form, but passive in meaning.

  • One inference to be drawn from this might be that the choice of neuter is inevitable since the gender of most English nouns is inscrutable.

  • These machines are pampered by de-personalizing everything they are fed, converting Carl or Clara to husband or wife or simply to spouse, my son Frank and daughter Kate to my children , and Lewis and Clark to the Lessor (the singular of course including the plural and the masculine the feminine or even the neuter, should a party be of undetermined sex).

  • But in more formal standard English inanimate objects are now referred to by the neuter pronoun it , though in other Indo-European languages that I know grammatical gender lingers as a sort of ghost of animistic gender haunting all nouns.

  • Twain continues: “a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female--tomcats included.”


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