 | Jonathan Rigdon - English language - 1896 - 280 pages
...person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. 81. Hence there are three persons : the First, which denotes the speaker; the Second, the person spoken to; and the Third, the person or thing spoken of. 82. Person in nouns is indicated by their use and not by a change in form. "I, Henry Anderson, am guilty."... | |
 | James N. Patrick - English language - 1898 - 234 pages
...(3) a party neither speaking nor spoken to, but merely spoken of. Hence, nouns have three persons: the first, the second, and the third. The first person denotes the speaker. EXAMPLE. I, James, saw these things. NOTE. Observe here, that "I" denotes the one spoken of, as well... | |
 | James N. Patrick - English language - 1903 - 220 pages
...a pronoun which shows the relation of the speaker to the object spoken of. There are three persons, the first, the second, and the third. The first person...denotes the speaker; the second, the person spoken to; the third, the person spoken of. Number is that form of a noun or a pronoun which distinguishes one... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - English language - 1903 - 312 pages
...speaker, the person spoken to, or the object spoken of. Hence, there are three persons : the First, which denotes the speaker ; the Second, the person spoken to ; and the Third, the object spoken of. Person in nouns is indicated by their use and not by a change in form. "I, Henry... | |
 | George Washington Flounders - English language - 1910 - 264 pages
...Complaining Pump-handle. 6. The Creaking Wagon Wheel. LESSON XXV.— PERSON. Nouns have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third. The first person denotes the speaker or writer; as, "I, James, will go." The second person denotes the person or thing addressed ; as, "James,... | |
 | Otto Augustus Wall - Latin language - 1917 - 160 pages
...finite verb is limited by person; there are three persons, the first indicating the person speaking, the second the person spoken to, and the third the person or thing spoken of. 17. There are two numbers ; the singular number meaning one and the plural meaning more than one. 18.... | |
 | William Dana Miller, Harry Gilbert Paul - English language - 1922 - 516 pages
...denotes the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. There are three persons; the first, the second, and the third. The first person denotes the speaker, the second person denotes the person spoken to, and the third person denotes the person or thing spoken of. Case... | |
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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. 
