Personal Pronouns - Pronouns - Parts Of Speech-ESL/Learn English Grammar

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[Sidenote: _Person in grammar._]


74. Since pronouns stand for persons as well as names, they must

represent the person talking, the person or thing spoken to, and the

person or thing talked about.


This gives rise to a new term, "the distinction of _person_."


[Sidenote: Person _of nouns_.]


75. This distinction was not needed in discussing nouns, as nouns

have the _same form_, whether representing persons and things spoken

to or spoken of. It is evident that a noun could not represent the

person speaking, even if it had a special form.


From analogy to pronouns, which have _forms_ for person, nouns are

sometimes spoken of as first or second person by their _use_; that is,

if they are in apposition with a pronoun of the first or second

person, they are said to have person by agreement.


But usually nouns represent something spoken of.



[Sidenote: _Three persons of pronouns._]


76. Pronouns naturally are of three persons:--


(1) First person, representing the person speaking.


(2) Second person, representing a person or thing spoken to.


(3) Third person, standing for a person or thing spoken of.



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