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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.”