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Grammatical Person

Grammatical person, in linguistics, is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person). Put in simple colloquial English, first person is that which includes the speaker, namely, I, we, me, and us, second person is the person or people spoken to, literally, you, and third person includes all that is not listed above. Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns. It also frequently affects verbs, and sometimes nouns or possessive relationships.

English Pronouns in the Nominative Case

Pronoun
Person and number
Gender
Standard
IFirst-person singular
weFirst-person plural
youSecond-person singular or second-person plural
heThird-person masculine singularmasculine
sheThird-person feminine singularfeminine
itThird-person neuter (and inanimate) singularneuter
theyThird-person gender-neutral singularcommon
theyThird-person plural
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Countable and uncountable

Grammatical case

Noun

Possessive

Pronoun

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