Question

How can I replace the word you and your in essay writing so it will not be in second person?

Answer 1

Hint: Forms of presenting points of view are first, second, and third person. ‘I/we’ are the words to use while writing as the first person. ‘You’ is the word to use while writing as the second person. ‘He/she/it/they’ are the words to use while writing as the third person.

Complete answer:
We usually talk in the first person when we speak about ourselves, our thoughts, and the things that happen to us. Using first-person pronouns is the greatest clue that a sentence is written in the first person. In the first line of this paragraph, the pronoun “we” refers to the first person form of writing.
The first-person pronouns are we, us, ours, etc. They are specifically first-person plural pronouns. First-person singular pronouns include I, me, my, mine, and myself.

In your essay, substitute instances of "you" by either using “individual” or “one” to refer to a single hypothetical person or using "people" to refer to a large group to which what you are saying relates.
In your essay, substitute instances of "your" by using the possessive forms of "individual," "one," and "people."

For example: You are really talented. This sentence is in the second person form. We can convert this sentence to either first or third person form. Then the first person sentence would be, I am really talented. The third person sentence would be, She is really talented.


Note:
I) A small subcategory of nouns is formed by pronouns. The distinctive feature of pronouns is that other nouns may be substituted for them.
II) An antecedent is a phrase of a noun or noun that you reference at the beginning of a phrase or story and replace it with a pronoun later.