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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin the third personin the third persona story written in the third person is told as the experience of someone else, using the pronouns ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘they’ → third person
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in the third person• With a fictional character, described in the third person, there is nothing that may not be said.• He writes of himself in the third person.• Hint: He often refers to himself in the third person.• Better rewrite it in the third person.• I was angry to hear Steve talk about me in the third person.• She speaks of herself not only in the third person, but in generic terms.• She was following the family pattern of talking about children in their own presence in the third person instead of addressing them directly.• Tennyson talks for Tithonus in the third person.
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