Words similar to neuter
Example sentences for: neuter
How can you use “neuter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
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.
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.
If, in the future, Modern Greek continues to be as hospitable to English words as it has been in the recent past, there are likely to be more and more neuter nouns with few inflections or none at all, at least until the new words have put down roots.
Please send some of those animal dollars our way and neuter these poor neglected creatures ...