First, second and third person is about writing from different perspectives. The personal pronouns can be divided into three groups as follows:
Next time you are reading a book, take note of which person it is written in. You may find the whole book is written in third person or that some chapters are in first person and so on. You could also try writing three pieces - each in a different person. This will really improve your English skills.
Do this 11-plus quiz and get comfortable with 'person' and learn a few quotations too.
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'I' is the first person (singular); we is the first person (plural)
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Trotsky is talking to 'you': you might be an individual (singular) or two or more people (plural)
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The writer is commenting about someone: 'he' is the third person singular
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'We' is the first person plural: the speaker is included in the group of people
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'He' is the third person singular: the writer is telling us something about him
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The speaker is addressing 'you': you might be an individual (singular) or two or more people (plural)
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'They' is the third person plural: the writer tells us something about how they arrived
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'We' is the first person plural: the speaker is included in the group of people who are commenting about the Beatles: how wrong they were!
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There's no pronoun here, but it doesn't mean that it hasn't been written in a particular person. The verb 'try' indicates that the writer is speaking to 'you': you might be an individual (singular) or two or more people (plural)
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'I' is the first person (singular); we is the first person (plural)
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