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third personmeaning

noun·B2·11 letters

grammar for someone other than speaker or listener

Example sentence

The novel is narrated entirely in the third person.

What "third person" looks like in a lesson

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Give me a sentence with "third person".

The novel is narrated entirely in the third person.

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That works. Now tell me where you last heard "third person".

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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