See tense. person, as a grammatical term, refers to the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken about. First person is the person(s) speaking (such as "I," "me," "my," "mine," "we," "us," "our," or "ours"). Second person is the person(s)... First Lessons in English - Page 87by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1888 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
| Caleb Farnum (Jr.) - English language - 1848 - 132 pages
...belong also to pronouns. PERSON. PERSON is that property of a noun or pronoun, by which it represents the speaker, the "person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. 2 There are three persons; the first, the second, and the third. The first person is that which represents... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - English language - 1855 - 580 pages
...— shape ; exterior appearance. — (Gram.) The character which a noun or pronoun bears, a0 denoting the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. *PER'SQN-A BLE, a. Handsome; graceful. *PER'SC>NA<^E, R. A person of distinction. »PER'S<?N.*L [p«r'syn-»l,... | |
| Thomas Goodwin (headmaster.) - 1855 - 386 pages
...inflected in number, and the verb in person too ; the noun, moreover, changes its person according as it stands for the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person spoken of. Number and person are the only .two accidents (so to speak) which the noun and the verb... | |
| Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1858 - 266 pages
...a noun or pronoun which shows its relation to the speaker. A noun or pronoun must represent either the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. There are three persons — ihefirst, second, and third. The first person denotes the speaker ; as,... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - English language - 1860 - 630 pages
...— shape ; exterior appearance. — (Gram.) The character which a noun or pronoun bears, as denoting the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. PEK'sON-A-HLE,a. Handsome ; graceful. PËR'SQN-AÇ-E, n. A person of distinction. PEH'spN-AL, a. Relating... | |
| Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 202 pages
...a noun or pronoun which shows its relation to the speaker. A noun or pronoun must represent either the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. There are three persons, — the first, second, and third. The first person denotes the speaker ; as,... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1863 - 266 pages
...the verb. 9. PERSON. There are certain distinctions of form according as the subject of the verb is the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken about, thut is, for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons ; as ' I write, thou writes*, he writes.' 10. NUMBER... | |
| Ethan Allen Andrews - Latin language - 1864 - 286 pages
...person of a noun or pronoun is the character sustained by the object which it represents, as being the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. Hence, as in verbs, there are three persons. CASES. Cases are those terminations of nouns which denote... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 pages
...persons (see § 31), the first, the second, and the third, according as the subject of the Verb is the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. The suffix for the second person (singular) is -est (AS -ast, -st, and -t) ; as, writ-est, wrot-est.... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 102 pages
...persons (see § 28), the first, the second, and the third, according as the subject of the Verb is the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. II. NUMBER. 91. A verb is singular when its subject is singular ; plural when its subject is plural... | |
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