EXERCISE.

Select the gender-nouns in the following sentences, and give the gender of each:—

1.	Mary and her friend went for a sail on the lake.
2.	The hero of this story is a young boy.
3.	Great authors are seldom seen by the people.
4.	Tell my mother that her other sons shall comfort her old age.
5.	He fled with his wife and child.
6.	My sister went home with her aunt.
7.	Both a prince and a poet were there.
8.	Little Effie shall go with me to-morrow to the green,
	And you’ll be there, too, mother, to see me made the Queen:
	For the shepherd lads on every side ’ill come from far away,
	And I’m to be Queen of the May, mother, I’m to be Queen of the May.—Tennyson.

LESSON XV.

NUMBER.

Which form of the following words denotes one thing, and which more than one thing?—

	pen,	slate,	church,	city,	tooth,
	pens,	slates,	churches,	cities,	teeth.

The form of a word which names one thing is called singular, and the noun is said to be in the singular number. The form of a word which names more than one thing is called plural, and the noun is said to be in the plural number.

1. The plural is generally formed by adding s to the singular form; as pin, pins; book, books.