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   Hi, Mark Lewis!   
      
    DM>>>> Correct, please: The cat, which walking by herself.   
    ML>>> that looks like an incomplete sentence but if it isn't, i'd use   
    ML>>> The cat was walking by itself. i used "itself" since we don't   
    ML>>> know the sex of the cat... but if we do, then "himself" for male   
    ML>>> or "herself" for female is OK...   
    AK>> I thought that in English "cat" is male, like a ship is female.   
      
    ML> no, cats are animals and animated objects... ships, cars, trains   
    ML> are not animals and are inanimate objects...   
      
   But we can say about a ship:   
      
   Captain Blood, by Sabatini   
   -----Beginning of the citation-----   
   All day the Dutch brig was in sight, though by evening she had dwindled   
   to the merest speck on the northern horizon.   
   ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
    ML> but it depends on the context, too... there are instances   
    ML> where "cat" may not be referencing an animal...   
      
    ML> eg: that guy is a cool cat, man!   
      
    AK>> "The cat, which walking by herself," is probably taken from a   
    AK>> story for children, where they are told how the cat had become a   
    AK>> domestic animal.   
      
    ML> that's why i said it looked like an incomplete sentence... you have   
    ML> two commas in your snippet whereas the original post had a comma   
    ML> and ended in a period...   
      
    AK>> The cat there could talk, and when the ancient woman invited him   
    AK>> into the cave, he always replied, "I am a cat. I am walking alone   
    AK>> and everywhere I want to." Do you have this story in the English   
    AK>> literature?   
      
    ML> not that i'm aware of but it has been a very long time since i read   
    ML> any children's books...   
      
   As I have learned, the original story was written by Rudyard Kipling, "THE CAT   
   THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF"   
   http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/cat.htm   
      
   So he was male? ;)   
      
   We have a cartoon on this subject. ;)   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2P_kWj8bJQ   
      
      
   Bye, Mark!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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