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Agreement These categories can be discussed in isolation, but their role in describing language structure becomes clearer when we consider them in terms of agreement. is partially based on the category of number, that is, whether the noun is singular or plural. Grammatical gender is based on the type of noun (masculine and feminine) and is not tied to sex. In this latter sense, nouns are classified according to their gender class and, typically, articles and adjectives have different forms to “agree with” the gender of the noun.