For example, here’s a sentence that switches person in a confusing way: Similarly, when using second or third person, don’t shift to a different point of view (10). When you write in the first person (I, we), don’t confuse your reader by switching to the “second person” (you) or the third person (he, she, it, they, etc.). They gave them their gloves because theirs had holes in them.Ī Reminder Regarding Usage: Agree in Person That was a bit awkward at the end, but there you have it-I mean them, all the pronouns.Īnd now, before the last chart with the third-person plural with the three cases, here’s a short example with its four pronouns (Don’t write sentences like this they’re impossible to understand!): “A laptop has its place on a desk or on a lap,” he thought, “but in the pocket near the heart and in the hand a fountain pen has its.” He had his with him and wondered about hers. He met her at a conference where she was the keynote speaker, and it was odd to him that her laptop had a fountain pen sticker on it, because that was his favorite kind of pen. This is going to be quite a mouthful of pronouns, but I’m going to try to include all twelve singular third-person pronouns in only three sentences: In addition to having a singular and a plural case, you may have already noticed that the third person has genders and a neuter category. “It” is in the singular third-person neuter subjective case. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” (7).
“She” is in the singular third-person feminine subjective case. “Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person” (6). “He” is in the singular third-person masculine subjective case. “Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested” (5). The following quotations include the third-person singular subjective cases and are from the opening lines of three novels: Authors of novels and composers of papers use “he,” “she,” or “it” when referring to a person, place, thing, or idea. The third person is the most common point of view used in fiction writing and is the traditional form for academic writing. And now to the third-person point of view.
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