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  2. Jussive mood - Wikipedia

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    The jussive mood in Turkish serves as an imperative (for issuing orders, commanding or requesting), but covers third person (both singular and plural) instead of second person. The negative, interrogative and negative-interrogative forms are also possible. Imperative: koş! (Run!) Jussive: koşsun! (similar to Let him/her run or he/she shall run)

  3. Illeism - Wikipedia

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    A number of celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe, [13] [14] Alice Cooper, [15] and Deanna Durbin, [16] referred to themselves in the third person to distance their public persona from their actual self. Mary J. Blige, in her song "Family Affair", introduces herself in the third person.

  4. Free indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]

  5. Imperative mood - Wikipedia

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    Imperative mood is often expressed using special conjugated verb forms. Like other finite verb forms, imperatives often inflect for person and number.Second-person imperatives (used for ordering or requesting performance directly from the person being addressed) are most common, but some languages also have imperative forms for the first and third persons (alternatively called cohortative and ...

  6. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    The extra categories may be termed fourth person, fifth person, etc. Such terms are not absolute but can refer, depending on context, to any of several phenomena. Some Algonquian languages and Salishan languages divide the category of third person into two parts: proximate for a more topical third person, and obviative for a less topical third ...

  7. Singular they - Wikipedia

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    Singular they, along with its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (also themself and theirself), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun derived from plural they. It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent, to refer to an unknown person, or to refer to every person of some group, in sentences such as:

  8. Justin Verlander wants 300 wins and some MLB rule ... - AOL

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    But Verlander doesn’t want to win 300 games simply for a sentence on his Hall of Fame plaque. If he hears another person saying that wins are overrated for starting pitchers, he’ll scream ...

  9. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The sentence can be read as "Reginam occidere nolite, timere bonum est, si omnes consentiunt, ego non. Contradico. " ("don't kill the Queen, it is good to be afraid, even if all agree I do not. I object."), or the opposite meaning " Reginam occidere nolite timere, bonum est; si omnes consentiunt ego non contradico.