second person

Lecount takes the business in hand and lays a trap for me -- I decline her tempting invitation by becoming totally ignorant of the whole affair the instant any second person appears in it.

Dowlas consented to go as a second person disinclined to act officially; and so poor Silas, furnished with some old coverings, turned out with his two companions into the rain again, thinking of the long night-hours before him, not as those do who long to rest, but as those who expect to "watch for the morning".

"Ach, Herr Carey, Sie mussen mir nicht du sagen--you mustn't talk to me in the second person singular."

Oliva investigates the use of first and second person in Peninsular Spanish as a complex array of functional strategies for developing cognitive representations of the speaker and other people and entities.

Given what happened--what you did," gripes the first, adding, a few moments later, "So you've ditched celibacy then?" First person subsequently tries to interest second person in joining a betting ring, to which nineteen people are currently signed up and for which twenty are needed.

Despite Booth's historically-dated claims in The Rhetoric of Fiction that "efforts to use the second person have never been very successful [...

Let us return to the traditional blessing formula: "Barukh attah Adonai, elohenu melekh ha-olam, asher..." "Blessed be You, O Lord our God, sovereign of the universe, who...." Those praying address God in the second person as "You O Lord." This Lord is then referred to in the third person as the sovereign of the universe who does such-and-such, for example "who commanded us to do something" or "who creates the fruit of the vine." Critics have focused on two problems in this formula--grammatical mixture and gender--and tried to amend it with two radically different solutions.

There are four different points of view used in fiction: first person, second person, third person and omniscient.

a list of criticism on the second person and address in general, on second-person narrative, and on second-person uses in poetry;