1 republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary specialised education

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In the English and Uzbek languages there is no agreement 
between the noun and its modifier in gender, because gender is a lexical 
category in these languages. Differing from the Uzbek language in 
English the lexical meaning of gender is expressed only by the 
substitution of pronouns “he”, “she”, ” it”; this peculiariy does not exist 
in the Uzbek language: 

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Human and non-human beings have lexical category of gender: 
feminine, masculine. Lifeless things do not have the lexical category of 
gender. English nouns can show the sex of their reference only lexically 
or by means of certain notional words used as sex indicators: 
masculine gender
feminine gender 
boy-friend
girl-friend 
man-producer
woman-producer 
landlord
landlady 
he-goat
she-goat
he-bear
she-bear
bull-calf 
cow-calf
cock-sparrow
cow-sparrow
king
queen
sir
madam
master 
mistress
actor
actress
waiter 
waitress
lion
lioness
host
hostess
steward
stewardess 
tiger
tigress
hero
heroine 
Some nouns with the marker of the feminine gender, such as -
ress, -ness,-ess, -ine
have been preserved from the ancient English: 
masculine gender
feminine gender 
master 
mistress
actor
actress
waiter 
waitress
lion
lioness
a noun
a pronoun
a boy he 
a girl she
a table it 

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host
hostess
steward
stewardess 
tiger
tigress
hero
heroine 
There are special cases, such as the association of neutral gender 
with babies and small animals which are expressed by “it’’: 
1.I saw a mouse. It was running across the room.
2.The spider was spinning its web.
3.The beetle crawled into its hole.
4.The baby threw down its rattle