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- adjective grammar Of a verb, in the
third person . - adjective literature Of a narrative, using verbs in the
third person .
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Examples
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The exception is the third-person singular: he does, or she does, or it does.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The exception is the third-person singular: he does, or she does, or it does.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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You know, when you get all third-person and drop your articles, you really start to sound like this guy.
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Interesting how language shifts - the story is third-person from Alexander's POV, and he is concise, precise, sparse, correct in his language.
Friday! brigidsblest 2009
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Night Work is presented to us through a more or less conventional third-person narration.
Translated Texts 2010
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The Melville of the novel's third-person "Passages" narrative is a distant figure, particularly when he meditates on his writing.
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And by beside himself, we mean he is having an out-of-body experience that causes him to refer to himself in the third-person.
HUFFPOST HILL - Rise Up Like An Egyptian Eliot Nelson 2011
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Whereas other languages no doubt include accurate pronouns to denote a stepchild as the object of a proposition, in English, all one has is the third-person singular neuter 'it.'
Tony Phillips: English Lacks Vocabulary for Safe Discussion of Stepchildren Tony Phillips 2011
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And by beside himself, we mean he is having an out-of-body experience that causes him to refer to himself in the third-person.
HUFFPOST HILL - Rise Up Like An Egyptian Eliot Nelson 2011
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He meets this challenge by interweaving two narratives: a third-person retelling of Melville's passages across land and sea, and a first-person depiction of Melville at home, told through the eyes of his wife, Lizzie.
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