Gender and number

#1 (**permalink**) 21-Aug-2004, 17:36

What aside from male and female allows you to know the words gender. example: the word Faith and Grace

#2 (**permalink**) 21-Aug-2004, 17:38

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Originally Posted by Keith

What aside from male and female allows you to know the words gender. example: the word Faith and Grace

What tells me the gender of a word as in Faith and Grace

Tdol · #3 (**permalink**) 22-Aug-2004, 17:43

They are both used as women's names.

#4 (**permalink**) 22-Aug-2004, 23:20

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Originally Posted by tdol

They are both used as women's names.

Ok now lets say that they are not used as womens names! as in I have faith in the chair I sit in and Grace gives us what we don't deserve! wHAT NOW? 8)

Casiopea · #5 (**permalink**) 23-Aug-2004, 05:37

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Originally Posted by Keith

What aside from male and female allows you to know the word's gender. example: the word Faith and Grace

In English, words do not have grammatical gender. French does: le, la. English doesn't. :)


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