+The _Third Person_ denotes the one spoken of+.
A noun is said to be of the first person when joined as an explanatory
modifier to a pronoun of the first person; as, _I, John_, saw these things;
_We Americans_ are always in a hurry. [Footnote: It is doubtful whether a
noun is ever of the first person. It may be said that, in the sentence _I,
John, saw these things_, John speaks of his own name, the expression
meaning, _I_, _and my name is John_, etc.]
A noun is of the second person when used as explanatory of a pronoun of the
second person, or when used independently as a term of address; as, _Ye
crags_ and _peaks_; Idle time, _John_, is ruinous.
+Direction+.--_Compose sentences in which there shall be two examples of
nouns and two of pronouns used in each of the three persons_.
+Person Forms+.
Personal pronouns and verbs are the only classes of words that have
distinctive person forms.
+Direction+.--_From the forms of the pronouns given in Lesson 124, select
and write in one list all the first person forms; in another list, all the
second person forms; and in another, all the third person forms._
Person is regarded in grammar because the verb sometimes varies its form to
agree with the person of its subject; as, _I see_; _Thou seest_; _He sees_.
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