| 1. | Both grammatical and natural gender can have linguistic effects in a given language.
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| 2. | Nouns in Shetlandic have grammatical gender beside natural gender.
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| 3. | The " grammatical gender " of a noun does not always coincide with its natural gender.
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| 4. | Verbs came in nine main grammatical, as opposed to the natural gender that prevails in modern English.
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| 5. | Old English nouns had grammatical gender, a feature absent in modern English, which uses only natural gender.
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| 6. | With the aid of the Graces, the appeal is successful, and Eurymine is restored to her natural gender.
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| 7. | The grammatical gender of a given noun does not necessarily correspond to its natural gender, even for nouns referring to people.
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| 8. | A noun's gender conforms to its referent's natural gender when it has one, e . g . " mother " is feminine.
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| 9. | Islam, on the other hand, has a tradition that the name Allah, like its referent, can be allocated neither grammatical nor natural gender.
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| 10. | Hence the grammatical gender of " M�dchen " is neuter, although its natural gender is feminine ( because it refers to a female person ).
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