你喜欢观赏the fishes还是the fish？应该说the chairman还是the chairperson？你有some还是any问题？应该说It was me 还是It was I?

《名词·代词》一书教你如何辨认名词和代词，如何区别不同类型的名词和代词并告诉你如何使用它们。本书还详细讲解了英式英语和美式英语有用法上的区别。

1 One Or More

2 Mice Or Mouses?

3 Media And Medias

4 I Like Fishes

5 They Are Selling Healthfoods Here

6 Our Excellent Staff

7 Raffles Hotel

8 Our Chairperson

9 This Medicine We Don't Stock

10 Book's, Book's Or Books?

11 Both The Boy's Parents

12 All Kind Or Kinds Of Sport?

13 A Two-Storey Bungalow

14 He Wore Only A Pair Of Pants!

15 People Or People?

16 Early Man

17 Between Doris And I

18 It Was Me!

19 We Could See The Play

20 The Job He/She deserves

Company Secretary:And I now call on our Chairman to open the meeting

Another Board member(whispers):Chairperson.

主席杰弗逊女士对公司秘书大为光火，因为这个秘书用了一个男性化的词来称呼她。她显然更愿意选择一个不含性别歧视的中性词。

英语里有很多词能让说话人、书写人区别性别。例如许多成对的词像father-mother,boy-girl,male-female等。有些名词是通过在阳性词后加后缀构成的，例如actor-actress,poet-poetess,god-goddess.

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