2nd person
The listener's perspective
Second person is a grammatical category for pronouns and verb forms that refer to the one being addressed.
In English, *you* is the second-person pronoun: You should see this.
Second-person narration, relatively rare in fiction, addresses the reader directly: You walk into a bar and order a drink.
Compare first person (I, we) and third person (he, she, they).
- thineYours, archaically
- thyOld possessive pronoun
- yoursPossessive for addressee
- thouArchaic second-person pronoun
- addresseeIntended mail recipient
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Speaker's own viewpoint
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2nd personfirst person narrator
Speaker who says "I"
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