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English language

Grammatical persons

Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to a participant in an event; such as the speaker, the addressee, or others.

In nominative case English pronouns, wich is how you will name them, and they are as follows:

I            it is singular, is the first person and it has no particular gender

You       it is singular, it is the second person and it has no particular gender as well

He         it is singular, it is the third person, and it is masculine

She       it is singular, it is the third person, and it is femenine

It            it is singular, it is the third person and it has no gender at all

We        it is plural, it is the first person and it has no particular gender

You        it is plural, it is the second person and it has no particular gender

They       it is plural, it is the hird person and it has no particular gender

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So here we have, singular grammatical persons, wich is just one, 

and plural grammatical persons, wich means more than one

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SINGULAR GRAMMATICAL PERSONS

I

YOU

HE

SHE

IT

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PLURAL GRAMMATICAL PERSONS

WE

YOU

THEY

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There are three grammatical persons in English:
1) First person. This is I when used to talk about yourself. I is always singular. This is
we when used to talk about a group in which I is a member. We is plural.
2) Second person. This is you. Second person is used when referring to the addressee.
The addressee may be singular or plural, depending on how many individuals are being addressed.
3) Third person. This is he, she, it, and they. Third person is used when referring to any

person, place, or thing other than the speaker and the addressee.​​

 

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