Questions tagged [grammatical-person]
For questions about choosing pronouns or verb forms based on grammatical person: 1st person (e.g. I am), 2nd person (e.g. you are), or third person (e.g. he/she/it is).
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Grammatical class of 'we' when referring to a collective group vs each individual of a group
What's the grammatical class of "we" when referring to a group in its entirety versus when referring to each individual member of the group.
For example, if I said to my girlfriend:
We will ...
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Is there any context in which the 2nd person singular and the 2nd person plural differ morphosyntactically?
As far as inflectional morphology is concerned, English isn't exactly a rich language. Still, the present-tense paradigm of the copular verb be shows that even English distinguishes between ...
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Why is 'you' considered plural? [closed]
The pronoun 'you' can be used both as a singular and a plural pronoun. However, it is never paired with 'is' and always with 'are'.
Why is it that 'you' is considered plural?
My guess would be that ...
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Singular they = general they [duplicate]
Well, here is the situation.
I have four students. They did a test. Suppose that the regulation is a student getting a score below 40 gets the remark "study hard" which is written at the bottom of the ...
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How to avoid mixing past and present tense in narration?
I looked through the related questions, but I didn't find any concrete advice.
I understand that it's OK to do so. I'm not sure how common it is, but I'm a beginner writer and want to keep things ...
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(Mixing 1st/3rd Person in same sentence) Is anyone knowledgeable in this grammar?
TLDR: The prompt below contains autobiographical examples that I believe to be incorporating both first and third person in the same sentences; I am unsure of how to proceed.
I am to adhere to the ...
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Which one is correct to use, first-person form or third person form?
In the below sentence, should "implement" need to be in a first person form or third person form as it is now?
This Regulation is set up with a view to ensure that subject people comply with ...
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Use of 'My', first or second person
I have a quick question. On my website I have a short sentence "Register My Interest".
Is this sentence in first or second person?
I think people jump to first person, but in that case ...
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Verb agreement in “It is you who has/have come” [duplicate]
Today I was playing the video game Assassin’s Creed Syndicate on my PC. In a mission where the player whose name is Evie Frye meets a guy, the guy says I thought Jacob was coming but that
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Subject-verb agreement with "whether" [duplicate]
Which of the following choices makes this sentence is grammatically correct? or is there a better approach?
It's unclear whether he/him or I/me is/are first in line.
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Logical/Etymological reason for unique conjugation of third person singular present tense
In most English verbs, there is a consistent pattern in the conjugation of present and past tense. For past tense, the same inflection is used for each grammatical person, but in present tense, third ...
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...if one of us dropped "our phone" or "his phone"?
It would be ruinous if one of us dropped our phone in the river, so each of us put their phone in their bag and set them aside.
In the sentence above, is it incorrect to say "if one of us dropped his ...
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"a time when you or a relative were/was a patient" [duplicate]
Is the following sentence correct?
Don't be afraid to talk about a time when you or a relative were a patient.
Or should it be one of the following:
Don't be afraid to talk about a time you or ...
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"Me who is" or "me who am"? [duplicate]
Generally the verb following
who agrees with the subject or object that precedes the who. This makes sense and is expected. When the subject or object that the who refers to is singular, the verb is ...
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Noun-verb agreement for a list of singular nouns including "I" and joined by "or" [duplicate]
I understand that when you have a list of singular nouns joined by "or", you should use a singular verb.
Example:
Either Chris or Len is the next player
But what verb do you use if one of the ...
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