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• A child is playing in the play-ground.
• A Parliamentarian should have command over his language.
In these sentences the words, “child" and “parliamentarian" are nouns of common gender.
4. Neuter gender:
A noun is said to be in the neuter gender if it refers to a member of a species which is neither a
male nor a female.
Normally nouns referring to lifeless objects are in neuter nouns.
Chair, table, tree, star, mountain, street, book, car, school,
paper, pencil and computer are few of the neuter nouns which We use regularly.
Example:
• Computer has brought about drastic changes in our lives.
• Tree is cleansing the air.
• Stars are not visible in the day-time.
• Books are our best friends.
In these sentences the words, “computer", “tree", “stars" and “books" are the neuter-gender
nouns.
