 | Joseph F. A. Boeuf - French language - 1829 - 274 pages
...French, as in English, these pronouns are classed in three persons. The first person is he who speaks ; the second, the person spoken to ; and the third, the person or thing spoken of, thus : third person. PERSONAL PRONOUNS NOMINATIVE TO THE VERBS. When the personal pronoun is nominative... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1830 - 124 pages
...smell, feel, or conceive of. The noun has four properties, viz. Person, Number, Gender and Case. OF PERSON. Person is that quality of the noun, which...the person spoken to — and the third, the person spoken of. OF NUMBER. Number is the consideration of an object, as one or more. Nouns have two numbers,... | |
 | Joseph F. A. Bœuf - French language - 1832 - 404 pages
...as in Knglish, personal pronouns are classed in three persona. The first is the person who speaks; the second, the person spoken to ; and the third, the person or thing spoken of. Thus : SING. PLURAL. Jeorj' /, nous we are pronouns of the first person. tu /Aou, vous you second person.... | |
 | Luiz Francisco Midosi - 1832 - 340 pages
...vós, ye or you, the second; dims, Mas, they, the third. Thejirst person, is the person that speaks; the second, the person .spoken to,. and the third, the person or thing spoken «/• The genders are distinguished thus: elle, he, is masculine; ella, she, is feminine; Eu, I; tu,... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1839 - 142 pages
...smell, feel, or conceive of. The noun has four properties, viz. Person, Number, Gender and Case. OF PERSON. Person is that quality of the noun which modifies...to ; and the third, the person or thing spoken of. OF NUMBER. Number, in grammar, is the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity... | |
 | L W. King - 1840 - 112 pages
...; and the Plural more than one. Nouns have three Persons in each number; the first Person denoting the speaker; the second, the person spoken to, and the third, the person spoken of ; as /, thnu, or you, he, she or it, in the Singular; with we, ye or you, and they in the... | |
 | James Brown (Grammarian) - English language - 1845 - 658 pages
...grammarians say that there are three persons ; namely, first, second, and third. The first person, say they, denotes the speaker. The second, the person spoken to, and the third, the person spoken of. Now, let us see in what way these three persons will appear when called into actual service.... | |
 | Charles Bathurst (schoolmaster.) - 1846 - 80 pages
...she, it. These pronouns are called personal because they vary in person. c There are three persons ; the first, the second, and the third. The first person denotes the speaker, or person speaking. The second person denotes the person spoken to. The third person denotes the person... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 pages
...nouns belong Person, Number, Gender, and Case PERSON. Nouns have three persons, — first, second, and third. The first person denotes the speaker ; the second, the person spoken to ; the third, the person or thing spoken of.* * Nouns are seldom used in the first person, as the speaker... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - English language - 1847 - 228 pages
...speaker, the person or thing addressed, and the person or thing spoken of. Nouns have three persons; — the first, the second, and the third. The first person denotes the speaker; as, " The salutation of TKCj Paul, with mine own hand." The second person denotes the person or thing... | |
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The first person denotes the speaker; the second, the person spoken to ; and the third, the person spoken of. The singular number denotes one ; and the plural, more than one. 
