Since pronouns stand for persons as well as names, they must represent the person talking, the person or thing spoken to, and the person or thing talked about.
Third person, standing for a person or thing spoken of.
The speaker is the first person, the person spoken to, the second person, and the person or thing spoken of, is the third person.
The name of the person or thing spoken of, or about, is the third person; as, 'James has come.
But the third person or thing spoken of being absent, and in many respects unknown, it is necessary that it should be marked by a distinction of gender.
A substantive is in the first person when it denotes the speaker, in the second person when it denotes the person spoken to, in the third person when it denotes the person or thing spoken of.
The first person denotes the speaker; the second person denotes the person spoken to; the third person denotes the person or thing spoken of.
If the person or thing spoken of exerts an action that does not pass over to an object, use lie, lay, lain and lying.
If the person or thing spoken of exerts an action that must pass over to an object, use lay, laid and laying.
If the person or thing spoken of exerts an action that passes over to an object, use raise, raised, and raising.
If the person or thing spoken of exerts an action that does not pass over to an object, use rise, rose, risen, rising.
The third person denotes the person or thing spoken of; as, "The earth thirsts.
The second person denotes the person orthing spoken to; as, "Listen, earth!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thing spoken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
