{"id":71797,"date":"2019-08-26T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71797"},"modified":"2019-08-26T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:24:48","slug":"first-person-second-person-and-third-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/first-person-second-person-and-third-person\/","title":{"rendered":"First Person, Second Person And Third Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way in which, in grammar, we show the difference between the person speaking, the person spoken to and the people or things spoken about.<\/p>\n<p>English distinguishes three persons &#8211; <em><strong>first person, second person and third person.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first person represents the speaker and possibly other people associated with the speaker. The first person pronouns are <strong><em>I\/me (singular) and we\/us (plural).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second person represents the hearer(s) and possibly other people associated with the hearer(s). The second person pronoun is<strong><em> you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third person represents everybody and everything else. The third person pronouns are <strong><em>he\/him, she\/her, they\/them and it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Personal pronouns<\/h3>\n<p>The pronouns <strong><em>I\/me, we\/us, you, he\/him, she\/her, they\/them and it<\/em><\/strong> are called personal pronouns because they stand for the three persons &#8211; the person(s) speaking, the person(s) spoken to and the person(s) spoken of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way in which, in grammar, we show the difference between the person speaking, the person spoken to and the people or things spoken about. English distinguishes three persons &#8211; first person, second person&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[892,893,894],"class_list":["post-71797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-first-person","tag-second-person","tag-third-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71799,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71797\/revisions\/71799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}