What’s grammatical person?

Grammatical person refers to the person or thing in a speaker’s or writer’s comments and influences the form of the verb used. It can be first, second, or third person and is a deictic reference. In English, the grammatical person is almost always mentioned, and verb forms change only in the third person singular. Grammatical […]

What’s grammatical gender?

Grammatical gender is a system in some languages where nouns are classified by gender, often masculine, feminine or neuter. Adjectives and articles must agree. Some languages have more extensive and complex gender systems, including assigning gender based on animate and inanimate categories or physical forms of objects. Grammatical gender is a system in the grammar […]

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