PARTS OF SPEECH
Grammatical categories of English
Grammatical categories of English: Number: In English, only singular and plural are indicated. In count nouns, -s is used to mark the plural. The plural is also marked in demonstratives (this vs. these, that vs. those). first and third person pronouns (I vs. we, he/she/it vs. them), first and third person possessive determiners (my vs. our, his/hers vs. their), and first and third person reflexive pronouns (myself vs. ourselves, himself/herself/itself vs. themselves). Some pronouns and adjectives mark the singular (every, each, someone, anybody, a/an), while others mark the plural (all, many, few, most, several). Third person forms of the verb in present tense also mark singularity by use of -s, and the forms of be mark number as well. Gender: English expresses natural gender but not grammatical gender. That is, nouns have a gender based on biological sex, and are not assigned a separate grammatical gender as in Spanish or German. ...
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