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What is third person?

What is third person? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) The words, word-forms, and grammatical structures, taken collectively, that are normally used of people or things other than the speaker or the audience.
  2. (grammar) the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is not the audience or the one making the statement. In English, pronouns used with the third person include he, she, it, one, they, and who.
  3. A form of narrative writing using verbs in the third person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to another person.
  4. (law) Someone not associated with a particular matter; a third party.
  5. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see third,‎ person.
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I really like the idea of the third person narrative taking you into different directions.
In Hungarian, the zero copula occurs only in the third person, and in AAVE it is not permitted in the first person singular.
A CEO who talks about himself in the third person and who is, to all appearances, a lunatic is not likely to be a very effective leader.
Among those under 30, every third person, in fact, believed in the conspiracy theory.
Things are even clearer with the object pronoun in the third person singular.
He enjoys playing the bouzouki and writing about himself in the third person.

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