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third person
noun[ U ]
us/ˈθɜrd ˈpɜr·sən/
grammar
the form of pronouns and verbs that people use when speaking or writing about other people:
"He," "him," and "his" are third person singular pronouns, and "they," "them," and "their" are third person plural pronouns.
Novels are usually written in the third person.

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Most interestingly, the visual evidence for the third-person actor is coded by the first-person-actor marker added to the verb.
However, the relevant correlation of stress and deictic use appears to be restricted to third-person pronouns.
The figure shows that all personal pronouns except for the third-person singular ones have increased.
The third-person-singular present tense in this dialect is characterized by a -zero marker, which is in variation with the standard -s marker.
Another important category, and one which in our data is associated exclusively with seeing that, is found in the context of third-person narratives.
First-person experience and third-person accounts, the subjective and objective elements of truth, were coming apart.
In fact, they most often occur within the anonymous, third-person narrative.
The third-person present tense -s forms were elicited through pictures depicting various occupations, such as dentist and farmer.
The second variable is the use of -s in third-person-plural contexts.
Table 3 shows a correlation matrix for responses on the third-person task and other measures.
Epistemic dualism between first- and third-person perspectives may thus be reflected in empirical dualism.
The purpose of the two studies described here is to further explore children's comprehension of third-person /s/.
The narrative frame of a puppet play with its objective third-person mode of delivering a story is indeed part of its central rationale.
The first-person subjective style of speech always gives way to the objective third-person mode.
I discuss them only to indicate that what looks like straight first-person material is liable to reaccentuation through a third-person perspective.
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