 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
 | Peter Bullions - 1871 - 156 pages
...without change, may be in the first person, or the second, or the third, according as it denotes ttie speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. Moreover, aa the name of the speaker or of the person spoken to, is seldom expressed (the pronoun /or... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1872 - 250 pages
...the verb. 9. PEIISOS. 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, that is, for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons ; as ' I write, thou writes^, he writes.' 10. NUMBER... | |
 | Ethan Allen Andrews - Latin language - 1874 - 284 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 persous. CASES. Cases are those terminatious of nouus which denote... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1880 - 280 pages
...— Bacon, The left lung is the larger. Person. Person is that property of a word which shows whether the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of, is meant. Nouns have three persons — the First, the Second, and the Third. The First Person denotes... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1880 - 186 pages
...said to be in the Third Person. DEFINITION.—Person is that property of a word which shows whether the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of, is meant. Nouns have three persons—the First, the Second, and the Third. DEFINITIONS.—!. The First... | |
 | Education - 1889 - 454 pages
...reference to sex. 2. Person is a modification of a noun or pronoun with reference to whether it denotes the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. 3. Number is a modification of a noun or pronoun with reference to whether it denotes one or more than... | |
 | Eliphalet Oram Lyte - English language - 1886 - 292 pages
...third person. 307. The Person of a noun or a pronoun is a variation in its use and form to represent the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. 308. There are three persons: the first, the second, and the third. The personal pronoun has a distinct... | |
 | John Tilden Prince - Teaching - 1886 - 368 pages
...before the pupils many sentences in which different forms are used to indicate whether they denote the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. The pupils will see that only some pronouns have person, and will call these personal pronouns. The... | |
 | Benjamin Young Conklin - English language - 1889 - 316 pages
...have person forms. 185. Definition. — Person is the use or form of a noun or pronoun to distinguish the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. [ Use of nouns ; use and form of pronouns.] 186. The first person denotes the speaker. 187. The second... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - English language - 1890 - 302 pages
...NUMBER, GENDER, CASE. PERSON. PERSON is that property of the noun which indicates whether it represents the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. Hence, there are three persons : the First, which denotes the speaker; the Second, the person spoken... | |
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