person

person (person): a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and determiners. We distinguish between first person (I, me, myself, my, mine, we, us, ourselves, our, ours), second person (you, yourself/yourselves, your, yours), and third person (he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, hers, it, itself, its, they, them, themselves, their, theirs). Noun phrases do not have special forms that show person, but are classified according to their meaning. The category of person combines with that of number, so that we get first person singular, first person plural, etc. The verb system has special present tense forms with third person singular subjects (I love him vs. he loves me). See further concord.