 See tense. person, as a grammatical term, refers to the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken about. First person is the person(s) speaking (such as "I," "me," "my," "mine," "we," "us," "our," or "ours"). Second person is the person(s)...  Observation, Thought and Expression, Or, Seeing, Thinking, Knowledge ... - الصفحة 48بواسطة Marshman William Hazen - 1898عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Caleb Farnum (Jr.) - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 132
...belong also to pronouns. PERSON. PERSON is that property of a noun or pronoun, by which it represents the speaker, the "person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. 2 There are three persons; the first, the second, and the third. The first person is that which represents... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...— shape ; exterior appearance. — (Gram.) The character which a noun or pronoun bears, a0 denoting the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. *PER'SQN-A BLE, a. Handsome; graceful. *PER'SC>NA<^E, R. A person of distinction. »PER'S<?N.*L [p«r'syn-»l,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...a noun or pronoun which shows its relation to the speaker. A noun or pronoun must represent either the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. There are three persons — ihefirst, second, and third. The first person denotes the speaker ; as,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...— shape ; exterior appearance. — (Gram.) The character which a noun or pronoun bears, as denoting the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. PEK'sON-A-HLE,a. Handsome ; graceful. PËR'SQN-AÇ-E, n. A person of distinction. PEH'spN-AL, a. Relating... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...a noun or pronoun which shows its relation to the speaker. A noun or pronoun must represent either the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. There are three persons, — the first, second, and third. The first person denotes the speaker ; as,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...the verb. 9. PERSON. There are certain distinctions of form according as the subject of the verb is the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken about, thut is, for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons ; as ' I write, thou writes*, he writes.' 10. NUMBER... | |
 | Ethan Allen Andrews - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...person of a noun or pronoun is the character sustained by the object which it represents, as being the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. Hence, as in verbs, there are three persons. CASES. Cases are those terminations of nouns which denote... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...persons (see § 31), the first, the second, and the third, according as the subject of the Verb is the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. The suffix for the second person (singular) is -est (AS -ast, -st, and -t) ; as, writ-est, wrot-est.... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 102
...persons (see § 28), the first, the second, and the third, according as the subject of the Verb is the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. II. NUMBER. 91. A verb is singular when its subject is singular ; plural when its subject is plural... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 156
...without change, may be in the first person, or the second, or the third, according as it denotes ttie speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. Moreover, aa the name of the speaker or of the person spoken to, is seldom expressed (the pronoun /or... | |
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