1st person 2nd person 3rd person?

Question

what is the difference in writing in 1st , 2nd, and 3rd person? what is 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person?

Answer 1

In first person you are writing as though you were there doing an action = "I ate supper."

In second person you are writing as though someone else you are talking to was there doing an action = "You ate supper."

In third person you are writing as though some one else was there doing an action = "He ate supper."

Answer 2

3rd person is when you refer to yourself by name as if you were another character or an outside observer. Did you ever see that Seinfeld episode with Jimmy? Jimmy talked about himself in the 3rd person. If Jimmy was talking to someone he'd say "Jimmy doesn't like to use the phone" "Jimmy hates phones". Since Jimmy is the one talking, the listener would expect him to say "I hate phones" not "Jimmy hates phones".

Answer 3

First person is when you are writing in a sort of narrative of your life. Think of it as a auto-biography. "I lived here. I shopped there." The key word is "I".

Second person is "you". You can't necessarily write a whole paper using second person. Second person is used mostly in person letters or e-mails. "How are you doing?" (First person is also used in combination with letters)

Third person is the most common form of writing. Third person is "He, she, it" in singular; in plural it is "they". "He went to the mall." "She works at Sears." And so on.

See the attached wikipedia articles for more in-depth information.

Answer 4

1st person is "i went to the store". 2nd person is "you went to the store" but "you" is you the writer not someone else on the street. 3rd person is "he/she/Sally went to the store." Hope this helps!

Answer 5

1st person is talking about yourself. For ex:
I went to the park. I ate an ice cream cone.

2nd person is when you are referring to the other person using words like "you".
For ex: You went to the park. You ate the ice cream cone.

3rd person is referring to the other person as well but using words like "he, she, their. etc"
For ex. He went to the park. He ate ice cream.

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

1st person talks about you the speaker. examples are i, me,us and we

2nd person is the listener. example is you

3rd person are people who are neither the speaker nor the listener. examples are they, it,she and he

Answer 7

1st person is using "i" "me" 2nd person dont have a clue...3rd person is "they" "us" "we" and other stuff.....