Practice Sheet - Gender

Practice Sheet                  Subject: English Grade: III  Topic: Gender

Name: _____________________ Date: ________________

• Masculine nouns refer to words for a male figure or (i.e. man, boy, actor, horse, etc.)
• Feminine nouns refer to female figures or female members (i.e. woman, girl, actress, mare, etc.)
• Common nouns refer to members of a species and don't specify the gender (i.e. parent, friend, client, student, etc.)
• Neuter nouns refer to things that have no gender (i.e. rock, table, pencil, etc.)

1.       Rewrite each sentence, changing the gender of underlined nouns.

·         The actress was wearing a beautiful dress.

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·         This boy is my nephew.

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·         The nurse helped her cousin.

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·         My uncle lives in Delhi with his son.

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·         The tall man has gone to see his sister.

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• The witch turned the cock into stone.

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·         The horse stood under the tree.

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·         The Empress of Egypt is a good singer.

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2.         Identify if the following nouns are common or neuter genders.

a. bench - __________________
b. doctor - __________________
c. table - ___________________
d. friend - __________________
e. police - _________________
f. teacher - ________________
g. painter - ________________
h. spoon - _________________

3 Classify the following gender nouns into different types and put them in their proper columns.

Cup	Chair	Queen	Bird	Host	Countess	fox
Duck	Steward	Wizard	Hero	Table	Doctor	Clown
Duchess	Car	Ball	Door	Cousin	Engineer	Banker
Waitress	Teacher	Stag	emperor	Bull	Artist	Bitch
Parent	Hen	Hunter	Drone	Lass	Person	Poet

Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Common