second person

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   pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur

   Broaderperson

Questions about second person

What does second person mean?

second person means "pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur".

Is second person a common word?

second person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.