Sterility, moreover, has been acquired through natural selection for other and widely different purposes, as with neuter insects in reference to their social economy.
The males die soon after the sexual intercourse; the females, when impregnated, lose their wings, and either voluntarily or by force enter into society with neuter or working ants, for the purpose of raising a new generation.
Which sometimes has a special reference attaching to it, as the neuter relative: 'Cæsar crossed the Rubicon, which was in effect a declaration of war.
That,' the neuter of the definite article, was early in use as a neuter relative.
The neuter verbs to taste and to smell are often followed by of.
In the classical languages the neuter adjective may be used as an adverb, and the analogy would appear to have been extended to English.
Cobbett discourses of this little neuter pronoun in this wise: "The word it is the greatest troubler that I know of in language.
Which is neuter and may be used in either the nominative or the objective case.
What is always of the neuter gender, and is used in only the nominative and the objective case.
A certaine Relation of the Hog faced Gentlewoman called Mistris Tannakin Skinker, who was borne at Wirkham a Neuter Towne betweene the Emperour and the Hollander, scituate on the river Rhyne.
Adsentiri quicquam: only with neuter pronouns like this could adsentiri be followed by an accusative case.
The ambiguity is sometimes avoided by the immediate succession of a neuter relative pronoun, as in 21 in quibusdam, quae.
Utrum: the neuter pronoun, not the so called conjunction, the two alternatives are marked by ne and an.
But the Attic writers often use it as a neuter word; and the genitive case, as they use it, is =tou tarichous=.
Epicharmus and Ameipsias both use it as a neuter noun; but Nicander, in his Melissurgica, uses =thymos= as masculine.
We also find the word =amygdalon= in the neuter gender.
It may be easily distinguished by its larger flower-heads, the outer, neuter florets of which are considerably enlarged.
Thus hortus in some parts of the Empire became hortu in ordinary pronunciation, and the neuter caelum, heaven, became caelu.
These influences and others caused many changes in the gender of nouns in popular speech, and in course of time brought about the elimination of the neuter gender from the neo-Latin languages.
Masculine and neuter nouns never differ in the plural except in the nom.
In these the Masculine is declined like hortus, puer, or ager, the Feminine like porta, and the Neuter like bellum.
A Neuter Pronoun or Adjective often stands as subject with opus as predicate.
Deponent Verbs have in the main Passive forms with Active orNeuter meaning.
Instead of the Genitive of the thing we often find an Infinitive or Neuter Pronoun used as subject of the verb.
In order to avoid ambiguity (see § 236, 2), the Gerundive Construction must not be employed in case of Neuter Adjectives used substantively.
Many Verbs usually Intransitive take a Neuter Pronoun, or Adjective, as an Accusative of Result.
Habit no doubt sometimes comes into play in modifying instincts; but it certainly is not indispensable, as we see, in the case of neuter insects, which leave no progeny to inherit the effects of long-continued habit.
One of the gravest is that of neuter insects, which are often very differently constructed from either the males or fertile females; but this case will be treated of in the next chapter.
I am surprised that no one has advanced this demonstrative case of neuter insects, against the well-known doctrine of Lamarck.
What three cases of neuternouns are always alike, and in what do they end in the plural?
So in the positive or superlative some adjectives, instead of following the usual formation, use the accusative or the ablative singular neuter adverbially; as, Adj.
Note the peculiar neuter singular ending in «-d» of «alius».
As we learned above, the neuter accusative of comparatives is used adverbially.
The comparative of any adverb is the neuter accusative singular of the comparative of the adjective.
Observe that in the neutersingular the adjective has «quoddam» and the substantive «quiddam».
Footnote 2: The gerund is the neuter singular of the future passive participle used as a noun, and has the same formation.
Footnote 1: «qua» is generally used instead of «quae» in the feminine nominative singular and in the neuter nominative and accusative plural.
The feminine and neuter nominatives show which form to follow, thus, MASC.
For tangere with a neuter plural subject see Aen I 462 'mentem mortalia tangunt'.
Many Latin neuter plurals were adopted into French as feminine singulars, e.
In late Latin the neuteradjective capitale, capital, was used of property.
The two neuterverbs are wash, to be; and witsasha, to become.
If I wait, ca v' oyobeh-tah In the following three columns I give a specimen of the conjugation of the absolute, passive, and neuter verb.
I am surprised that no one has advanced this demonstrative case of neuter insects, against the well-known doctrine of inherited habit, as advanced by Lamarck.
Habit no doubt often comes into play in modifying instincts; but it certainly is not indispensable, as we see in the case of neuter insects, which leave no progeny to inherit the effects of long-continued habit.
But I must confess, that, with all my faith in natural selection, I should never have anticipated that this principle could have been efficient in so high a degree, had not the case of these neuter insects led me to this conclusion.
One of the most serious is that of neuter insects, which are often differently constructed from either the males or fertile females; but this case will be treated of in the next chapter.
The word dorus is neuter in Old-Irish, making its nom.
Some adjectives, principally those from present participles, have the masculine and neuterterminations i and u in the singular, and in the plural i for both genders.
Besides these, they have a semi-vowel written [lr] the sound of which in words of the masculine gender approaches l, in those of the neuter gender r.
When the masculine ends in illi, the neuter takes urru, as wadikilli, wadikurru, long.
In Greek the neuter stem and the dative case were alone retained for the purpose.
Various cases, such as the locative, the dative or the instrumental, are employed in Vedic Sanskrit in the sense of the infinitive, besides the bare stem or neuter formed by the suffixes man and van.
It was long before the speaker was able to imagine an action without an object, and when he did so, it was a neuter or substantival rather than a passive verb that he formed.
We have now considered the model verbs of the neuter kind, with the exception of the verb =to be=, which is left for a distinct consideration, being the most active of all verbs.
Mr. Murray does not exactly approve of this distinction, but prefers to class the intransitive and neuter together.
We closed our last lecture with the examination of neuter verbs, as they have been called.
It is unfortunate for the neuter systems that they can not define a "neuter verb" without making it express an action which terminates on some object.
Was I a believer in neuter verbs and desired to get money, my first step would be to set up a boarding house for all believers in, and practisers of, intransitive verbs.
Adverbs express "manner of action" in a neuter verb!
But act, in this case, is a neuter or intransitive verb, and wisely expresses the manner of action where there is none!
It would be difficult to explain neuter verbs in such a predicament.
It is a curious fact, and should be maturely considered by all who still adhere to the neuter verb theory, that adverbs qualify neuter as well as active verbs, and express the quality or manner of action, where there is none!
The good matron's remark was a poser to the daughter, but it served as a means of her entire deliverance from the thraldom of neuter verbs, and the adoption of the new principles of the exposition of language.
It is said that a neuter or intransitive verb may be known from the fact that it takes after it a preposition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neuter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
