GRAMMATICAL GENDER
• The type of biological distinction used in English is quite different
from the more common distinction found in languages that use
grammatical gender.
• Spanish, for example, has two grammatical genders, masculine and
feminine, illustrated by the expressions el sol (“the sun”) and la luna
(“the moon”). German uses three genders, masculine der Mond (“the
moon”), feminine die Sonne (“the sun”) and neuter das Feuer (“the
fire”)