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2 unusual facts about Third person


German conjugation

Third person: 'He', 'She', 'It'; (Er, Sie, Es) with the same form for all three

Third person

Third-person shooter, a genre of 3D video games in which the onscreen character is seen at a distance from one or more possible angles


Earth's Children

This "spirit language" has no spoken words apart from personal names, and its users generally refer to themselves in the third person.

Love Among the Chickens

In the 1906 version, the first five chapters were narrated in the third person, before shifting to the first person.

Sniper Elite

Sniping gameplay is in first person scope view, whereas movement and use of all other weapons is in third person view.

The White Bone

She likes the sound of her name so much that she refers to herself in the third person.

Zimmern Chronicle

When the anonymous, unpublished chronicle was rediscovered in the 19th century, historians were not sure about the identity of the author (most of the chronicle is written in the third person, while at some times the writer slips into the first person).


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A History Maker

Like Gray's Poor Things the novel takes the form of documentation written by the characters themselves in order to record their experiences for posterity: a Prologue and notes (which make up almost a third of the total text) by "the hero's mother", and the central portion of the book, which is a third person narrative written by its protagonist, Wat Dryhope.

A Maggot

Eventually the narration stops and is followed by letters, interview transcripts, and snatches of more third-person narration, interspersed by facsimile pages from contemporary issues of The Gentleman's Magazine.

Atomic Games

Atomic Games was developing an upcoming third-person military shooter/Survival Horror hybrid, Six Days in Fallujah, depicting The Second Battle of Fallujah.

Bed trick

The bed trick is a plot device in traditional literature and folklore; it involves a substitution of one partner in the sex act with a third person (in the words of Wendy Doniger, "going to bed with someone whom you mistake for someone else").

Berrichon dialect

The present indicative of the first person singular, the third person singular and the third person plural are all conjugated in the same manner, which results in phrases of the type, "j'menons les oies" ("I lead the geese").

Bonnie Richardson

Richardson became the first female, and only the third person, to singlehandedly win a Texas state team title, joining James Segrest (Class 2A Bangs in 1954) and Frank Pollard (Class B Meridian in 1976).

English irregular verbs

Apart from the modal verbs, which are irregular in that they do not take an -s in the third person (see above), the only verbs with irregular present tense forms are be, do, have and say (and prefixed forms of these, such as undo and gainsay, which conjugate in the same way as the basic forms).

Federal Circuit Court of Australia

The first Chief Federal Magistrate, Diana Bryant left the court in 2004 when she was appointed Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, the third person to be appointed that position since the establishment of the Family Court.

Future Cop

Future Cop: LAPD, a 1998 third-person shooter published and developed by Electronic Arts

Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns

Sometimes the distinction is neutralized in the plural, as in most modern Germanic languages (examples of gender-neutral third-person plural pronouns include English they and German sie), and also in modern Russian (where the equivalent pronoun is они oni).

George Watterston

After war's end, Watterston was appointed by President James Madison as Librarian of Congress, the third person to hold the position and the first with that as his sole responsibility.

Herb Muschel

In 1954, he founded PR Newswire, which was a cutting edge service that once distributed corporate financial news at a time when the Federal Communications Commission allowed only AT&T and Western Union to send printed messages to a third person.

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

He becomes the first Pakistani to be presented with such honour and a third person in world to receive this award other than Nelson Mandela and Oliver Hill.

Jacob Tullin Thams

He won the first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924, and became the third person (after Gillis Grafström who competed in one sport only and boxer/bobsleigh crew member Eddie Eagan) to medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1936 as a member of the silver medal-winning Norwegian 8-metre sailing team.

Karen Hughes

Hughes was the third person chosen for this task by President Bush, following unsuccessful attempts by Charlotte Beers and Margaret Tutwiler.

Las armas secretas

The Droolings of the Devil ("Blow-Up" in the US translation): the story that inspired the film Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni for its digressive execution of metalinguistic narrative and lucid contemplation; (its beginning guarantees it, never will you know how it has to be told, if in the first person or in the second, using the third person plural or continually inventing forms that serve no purpose)

Michel Samaha

In December 2012, 14 March MP Okab Sakr claimed that Jamil Al Sayyed, who is one of Samaha's close confidants, had been in the car with Samaha along with a third person while transferring explosives from Syria to Lebanon to carry out terrorist attacks.

Noel Power

In 2000, an opinion poll scandal emerged in the University of Hong Kong when the Director of the university’s Public Opinion Programme (POP), Dr Robert Chung, revealed to the local media that he was pressured by then Chief Executive, Tung Chee Hwa, through a third person that he must stop conducting public opinion poll on the popularity of the Chief Executive and the government.

Occitan conjugation

Even though the latter three normally give part, fug and mòr at the third person singular of present indicative, in a number of parts of Occitania they will also be declined using the -iss- augment, thus giving partís, fugís and morís.

Okab Sakr

In December 2012, Sakr claimed that Jamil Al Sayyed had been allegedly in the car with Michel Samaha along with a third person while transferring explosives from Syria to Lebanon to carry out terrorist attacks.

Pensa

Pensa is the present tense third person conjugation for the verb pensar ("to think") of the Portuguese language.

Russ Brandon

Brandon is only the third person to serve as President of the Bills, after Wilson and Tom Donahoe.

Scivelation

Scivelation (previously known as Salvation) is a third-person shooter being developed by Ukrainian developer Black Wing Foundation for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Shaiwatna Kupratakul

Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are two of the three people on earth which Shaiwatna Kupratakul wish most to meet personally, the third person is Einstein.

Shall and will

Because of this, like the other modal verbs, they do not take the usual -s in Modern English's third-person singular present; we say she shall and he will – not *she shalls, and not *he wills (except in the rare sense of "to will" being a synonym of "to want" or "to write into a will").

Simple present

The modal verbs (can, must, etc.) have only a single form, with no addition of -s for the third person singular.

Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles

Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles is a third person shooter for the PC developed by Monolith Productions and published by RealNetworks.

The Jimmy

George enters, talking again in the third person saying he must answer to the team owner, George Steinbrenner for the stolen equipment.

Underoath

In October 2007, Underoath had begun filming their third person documentary Survive, Kaleidoscope.

Wang Gungwu

In 2007, Wang became the third person to be named University Professor by the National University of Singapore.

What's Happening Brother

Throughout this song, Marvin mentions in his brother's third person about the nightclub, about whether or not his baseball team would "win the pennant" and wonders how his friend has been which brings upon the question, "what's happening brother?" Musically the song follows the same path as "What's Going On" and features The Andantes as background vocalists.