Question

What is first person, second person and third person?

Answer 1

Hint: Three different perspectives can be used while writing or speaking in English. We tend to communicate in the first person while addressing one’s self, our thoughts, or the events that occur in our lives. The individual (or people) getting discussed is the subject of the second-person perspective. The individual (or people) being discussed is the subject of the third-person factor of perspective.

Complete answer:
Remember that the individual (or people) getting addressed the topic, is the subject of the second-person perspective. Then consider the individual (or people) being discussed as a topic, is the subject of the third-person factor of perspective. Then of course the person who will speak about themselves can be in the first-person perspective.

The speaker (first person) seldom refers to themselves by their own identity or even a noun. Instead they make use of pronouns to address themselves in the ‘first-person’:
Taking singular form of pronouns would be: I, myself, me, mine, my
While the plural form pronouns can be: we, our, ourselves, us, ours

When referring to another in the second person, you can use any name of that person or object, a suitable pronoun, or perhaps just a noun.
Taking singular form of pronouns would be: yourself, you, yours, your
While the plural form pronouns can be: yourselves


When talking about others or something from the third person, you can also utilize their name, an apt noun, or maybe even a pronoun.
Looking at their singular form: she, he, her, him, it, himself, herself, its, itself.
Similarly their plural form can be: they, their, them, theirs, themselves.

Examples:
I had a very bad feeling about the movie Rockstar. [Here ‘I’ is used for the first person]
Did you feel bad about this movie too? [Here ‘you’ is the person being addressed the topic so its second person]
It was a bad idea. [Here ‘it’ refers to the movie and so is the third person]

Therefore to summarize we can understand that;
When an individual voices their own opinion or point of view, they are the ‘first person’ because they themselves are speaking.
If that person is speaking to another person then this person acting as the receiver is said to be the ‘second person’.
Finally if anyone talks about anything or anyone else, then the person who is the topic of discussion is said to be the ‘third person’.

Note: In most case scenarios, the narrators of a story generally make use of the first person. This may be to be attached with the character on a physical as well as on the emotional level. Thinking from their perspective is something a storyteller must be good at; that brings life to any story. It is easier to understand stories narrated in first person; there is less chaos or confusion.