Answered By: James Whitmer Last Updated: May 18, 2020 Views: 67
Answered By: James Whitmer
Last Updated: May 18, 2020 Views: 67
"Person" refers to who is the subject of your sentences: yourself or a group you belong to, a person or group you are addressing directly, or a person or group you are simply describing. The different persons are as follows:
- First (the self): I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours
- Second (the person spoken to): you, your, yours
- Third (the person spoken about): he, she, it, they, and many other words that you can see in the link below.
Generally, in academic writing, you want to stay in third person for these reasons:
- first person can be seen as biased or too focused on one opinion, and
- second person can be distracting because it can force associations on the reader that may not be true or relevant.
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