Question:
Please briefly explain speaking in the third person.?
gdannehl@swbell.net
2006-08-05 19:06:00 UTC
Please briefly explain speaking in the third person.?
Eleven answers:
?
2006-08-05 19:11:05 UTC
The personal pronouns I and we are said to be in the first person. The speaker uses this in the singular to refer to himself or herself; in the plural, to speak of a group of people including the speaker.



The personal pronoun you is in the second person. It refers to the addressee. You is used in both the singular and plural; thou is the archaic second-person singular pronoun.



All other pronouns and all nouns are in the third person. Anyone or anything other than the speaker and the addressee is referred to in the third person.
anonymous
2016-12-16 16:05:14 UTC
Explain Third Person
Chappy
2006-08-05 19:12:54 UTC
Speaking in the third person refers to using your own name in the place of the pronouns he/she/it
RandomNormality
2006-08-05 19:15:22 UTC
In third person, the way you're reading it is from a narrator's perspective.



Instead of using "I" or "we" (in non-dialog parts), the narrator used "he" or "she" or "them".



In third person, there is also third person omnisent, and third person limited.



In omnisent, you get an idea of the feelings of the people (for example, the thoughts of the main charecter or other charecters, more expression). In limited, you don't really, and it's more like a general overview.
anonymous
2006-08-05 19:11:30 UTC
Speaking in third person is used by someone who observes someone else doing something like:



He went to the store

she went swimming

They went swimming

etc.
Babumoshai
2006-08-05 19:10:49 UTC
Babumoshai will explain third person to you.



Third person is when someone uses their name to refer to them selves in the place of 1st person (I, me, we, us)
Jimmy
2006-08-05 19:13:57 UTC
It means talking about yourself as if you were talking about someone else. For example, if you asked Michael Jordan for an autograph and he said, "Michael Jordan doesn't give autographs", he would be talking in the third person. If he said, "I don't give autographs", he would be talking in the first person.
Elly
2006-08-05 19:10:02 UTC
Instead of saying "I feel hungry" I would say "Elly feels hungry"



you just speech as though you were not you but someone else you are talking about.
axelf57
2006-08-05 19:11:06 UTC
It's when someone mentions themselves by their own name as the objective in a sentence. It is often (and with good reason) construed as something done by people with inflated egos and misinformed importance.
phoephus
2006-08-05 19:10:11 UTC
Someone who is speaking that is not you or me.
zellx99
2006-08-05 19:13:27 UTC
think of elmo...he always says things like "elmo wants to know how babies are made"


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