19. The merchant (comerciante) was elected a member of your society.
20. Mr. Brown is a captain.
21. John set out for America.
22. I like (me gusta) to study foreign languages (lenguas extranjeras).
LESSON III.
(Lección tercera.)
THE NOUN.
The noun in Spanish has only two genders.
=Nouns= denoting =male= beings are =Masculine=.
" " =female= " " =Feminine=.
When there is no real gender, nouns are called masculine or feminine according to their terminations.
GENERAL RULE.—All nouns that terminate in a, ión, d, also abstract nouns ending in ez, are feminine, as—