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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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Your green slip covers the third person, which is your passengers or other vehicles that you hit.
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
The third person in the triangle is receiving affection and intimacy that rightfully belongs to the spouse.
He enjoys playing the bouzouki and writing about himself in the third person.
In Hungarian, the zero copula occurs only in the third person, and in AAVE it is not permitted in the first person singular.
Though coyly written in the third person, these quips show him basking in his achievements.

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