Sentence examples for 2nd person from inspiring English sources

By Katherine Heiny The New Yorker, September 21 , 1992P. 35 Gwen (in the 2nd person voice) and Boris, graduate students, are roommates, but Gwen pretends and lets people infer that they are romantically involved.

By John Batki The New Yorker, May 9, 1970 P. 42 Quasi-autobiographical sketch written in the 2nd person, (you are four years old in a faraway country...) Writer relives childhood and adolescent experiences which involved living in a war-torn country, his companions, education, romances and travels abroad.

Purcell The New Yorker, March 14 , 1964P. 38 Parody of the new "Herald Tribune" which conveys the heartbeat of the city by addressing the reader directly, in the 2nd person.

There are Prākritisms (i.e., forms of earlier Prākrits) in Apabhraṃśa e.g., the genitive singular ending -ssa instead of -hŏ and 2nd person plural verb forms terminating in -ha instead of -hu.

Such change was recognized by Indian grammarians; e.g., Patañjali noted that perfect forms of the type ca-kr-a 'you did' (2nd person plural) were not in use at his time; instead, a nominal (participial adjective) form with a complex suffix-tavat was used e.g., kṛ-tavant-as (nom. l. masc).. Indian grammarians also recognized the existence of different dialects.

The diphthongs ei (as well as ai) and au in final position were monophthongized and later shortened in Latvian e.g., Lithuanian ved-eĩ (2nd person singular preterite) = Latvian *ved-ie, which became ved-i "you led"; Lithuanian med-aũs = Latvian *med-uos, which became med-us "of honey".

"I'm not a 5am person.

Young 3-5 person teams.

Serves 1 person.

-- 1 person died in the ER.

3" person in al-Qaeda.