See also first person writing This is a term that applies to pronouns and verbs and tells the listener or reader about the ‘person’ concerned. Turning to pronouns first, in English, only the third person singular has a distinct form –...

// n. or adj. One of a set of third-person pronominal forms occurring in certain languages and used exclusively for the second or later third-person entity to be mentioned in a discourse, the first such entity to be mentioned being referred to by one...

// n. That category of person which includes no reference to the speaker or to the addressee. The English pronouns he, she, it and they are all third person in reference, as are the overwhelming majority of noun phrases in all...

Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns. It also frequently affects verbs,...