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Definition of Second person
1. Noun. Pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur.
Definition of Second person
1. Noun. In grammar, the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns ''thou'' and ''you''. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct. ¹
2. Noun. A form of narrative writing using verbs in the second person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the reader. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Second Person
Literary usage of Second person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"In Mozarabic the first person pronoun also appears in the form mibi, clearly
based on the second person form (Alvar-Pottier 1983, 118). ..."
2. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"In Mozarabic the first person pronoun also appears in the form mibi, clearly
based on the second person form (Alvar-Pottier 1983, 118). ..."
3. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean by William Mariner, John Martin (1817)
"In the second person singular, the pronoun coy or subject of the verb comes after
it; but iu the first and second persons dual and plural, the pronouns tow ..."
4. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"AN UNRECOGNIZED CONSTRUCTION OF THE LATIN SUBJUNCTIVE: THE second person SINGULAR
IN GENERAL STATEMENTS OF FACT BY WILLIAM GARDNER HALE My paper deals with ..."
5. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1890)
"ON NE PROHIBITIVE WITH THE second person 01 THE PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE IN CLASSICAL
LATIN. IT has been known ever since the appearance of the second volume of ..."
6. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"If а personal pronoun referring to a vocative or repeating a personal pronoun of
the first or second person already mentioned stands after the relative, ..."
7. At Home in Fiji by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1817)
"the deficiency both of a modal and temporal sign : it has the second person
singular, and the first and second persons dual and plural. In the second person ..."
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