The gender of these words is different. Which word is different from the others?
a) Boy
b) Girl
c) Men
d) Sister
I already know the answer but I can't understand the reason why that's the right word!
Can you explain it to me? Is important.
Thank you.
2007-09-11 03:00:46 · 12 answers · asked by Riversky 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I meant "It is important"
2007-09-11 03:01:39 · update #1
I thank you all, also the Italian friends, for helping me in finding the answer to this question...
Anyway, it's very important, to me, to know the opinion of the English ones.
So I let the English friends decide for me what's the right answer...
Thank you so much for your help!!!!!!!!
2007-09-11 21:11:34 · update #2
c) Men is plural, the others are singular.
2007-09-11 03:05:37 · answer #1 · answered by TurtleFromQuebec 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gender and sex are interchangeably used. Contrary to what someone else said, sister is not just a relationship. It is a sibling of the feminine gender.
You can make a case that "men" is different in "number" not "gender" since it is a plural word.
But from gender perspective you have 2 masculine (Boy, Men) and 2 feminine (Girl, Sister)
2007-09-11 03:17:03 · answer #2 · answered by sumithar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok... The 'odd one out' if you like is men, while yes, being plural, it is also non gender specific (contrary to what has been said before). The word 'men' can refer to a group of people of mixed gender.
Man is the singular to refer to our species, men is the plural to refer to a group of individuals (of either gender) as in the word 'mankind'.
2007-09-11 03:50:15 · answer #3 · answered by Richard W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English does not have genders for nouns. All of your list have "the same," gender, which is to say, they do not have gender. Nor do definite and indefinite articles associated with nouns have genders.
No English dictionary will identify a noun with a gender, except for perhaps a few listings that might show a historical connection to gender. For instance, "She is a blonde, but he is a blond."
The questioner's other language, Italian, indeed has noun genders. But not English
2007-09-11 04:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by dnldslk 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Boy, girl and men are used to describe someone's sex. Sister is used to describe a persons familial relationship to other family members. It does not specifically describe their gender. So the answer could be sister.
As noted above, it could also be men since that is the only plural answer.
2007-09-11 03:08:34 · answer #5 · answered by ghouly05 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gender and sex only mean the same in schoolboy jokes
Virtually every form you look at these days gets it wrong!
Gender is a purely grammatical concept relating to nouns pronouns and adjectives. sometimes used jocularly to indicate a person's sex.
gender is masculine , feminine or neuter
he,she or it
sex is male, female, boy, girl
2007-09-11 04:20:18 · answer #6 · answered by The Surgeon's assistant 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sister is a relation. Whereas Boy, girl and Men are gust genders
2007-09-11 03:10:05 · answer #7 · answered by Atif Majid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Two logical ways of looking at this question.
1) Men - Because it is Plural.
Or
2) Sister - because it contains 2 vowels.
2007-09-11 06:25:10 · answer #8 · answered by Terry G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's "sister" - indicating a relationship with someone. The other words just name a gender of humans.
2007-09-11 04:18:32 · answer #9 · answered by captbullshot 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
men is plural, the others are singular, the gender bit is just to throw you off
2007-09-11 03:41:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
C) Men - men is plural, the rest are singular
2007-09-11 03:06:12 · answer #11 · answered by Heather 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋