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  2. Second person - Wikipedia

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    Second person can refer to the following: A grammatical person (you, your and yours in the English language) Second-person narrative, a perspective in storytelling;

  3. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).

  4. Clusivity - Wikipedia

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    Clusivity in the second person is conceptually simple but nonetheless if it exists is extremely rare, unlike clusivity in the first. Hypothetical second-person clusivity would be the distinction between "you and you (and you and you ... all present)" and "you (one or more addressees) and someone else whom I am not addressing currently."

  5. Personal pronoun - Wikipedia

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    The re-use in some languages of one personal pronoun to indicate a second personal pronoun with formality or social distance – commonly a second person plural to signify second person singular formal – is known as the T–V distinction, from the Latin pronouns tu and vos.

  6. You - Wikipedia

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    You is used to refer to an indeterminate person, as a more common alternative to the very formal indefinite pronoun one. [30] Though this may be semantically third person, for agreement purposes, you is always second person. Example: "One should drink water frequently" or "You should drink water frequently".

  7. Thou - Wikipedia

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    In modern regional English dialects that use thou or some variant, such as in Yorkshire and Lancashire, it often takes the third person form of the verb -s. This comes from a merging of Early Modern English second person singular ending -st and third person singular ending -s into -s (the latter a northern variation of -þ (-th)).

  8. Ye (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    The pronoun "Ye" used in a quote from the Baháʼu'lláh. Ye / j iː / ⓘ is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (), spelled in Old English as "ge".In Middle English and Early Modern English, it was used as a both informal second-person plural and formal honorific, to address a group of equals or superiors or a single superior.

  9. Wikipedia:Party and person - Wikipedia

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    Person Simple cases Primary source material An account of an event, written by an eyewitness; Novel conclusions in a scientific paper or government report; Court filings, legal documents, and patents; Speeches given by politicians or activists about their views and goals; Secondary source material A magazine article based on previous media reports