Learn the following plurals and compare them with the groups in the
preceding Lesson.

Moneys, flies, chimneys, valleys, stories, berries, lilies, turkeys,
monkeys, cuckoos, pianos, vetoes, solos, folios, gulfs, chiefs, leaves,
roofs, scarfs, inches.




LESSON 80.

NOUNS AND PRONOUNS.--GENDER.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--_The lion was caged. The lioness was caged_.
In the first sentence, something was said about a _male_ lion; and in the
second, something was said about a _female_ lion. Modifications of the noun
to denote the sex of the object, we call +Gender+. Knowing the sex of the
object, you know the gender of its name. The word _lion_, denoting a male
animal, is in the +Masculine Gender;+ and _lioness_, denoting a female
lion, is in the +Feminine Gender+.

The names of things _without_ sex are in the +Neuter Gender+.

Such words as _cousin, child, friend, neighbor_, may be _either masculine
or feminine_.