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"A work on english grammar and composition"

How is the plural of nouns regularly formed? In what ways may the
plural be formed irregularly? Illustrate.
_Lesson_ 113.--Give the plural of some nouns adopted from other languages.
How do compounds form the plural? Illustrate the several ways. How do
letters, figures, etc. form the plural? Illustrate.
_Lesson_ 114.--Give examples of nouns having each two plurals differing in
meaning. Some which have the same form in both numbers. Some which have no
plural. Some which are always plural. What is said of the number of
collective nouns?
_Lesson_ 116.--In what four ways may the number of nouns be determined?
Illustrate.
_Lesson_ 117.--What is Gender? Define the different genders. What is the
difference between sex and gender? The gender of English nouns follows
what? Have English nouns a neuter form? Have all English nouns a masculine
and a feminine form? In what three ways may the masculine of nouns be
distinguished from the feminine? Illustrate. Give the three gender forms of
the pronoun.
_Lesson_ 118.--How is gender in grammar important? When is the pronoun of
the masculine gender used? When is the neuter pronoun _it_ used? By the aid
of what pronouns are inanimate things personified? In personification, when
is the masculine pronoun used, and when is the feminine? Illustrate.


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