+DEFINITIONS+.
+Person is that modification of a noun or pronoun which denotes the speaker, the one spoken to, or the one spoken of+.
+The First Person denotes the one speaking+.
+The Second Person denotes the one spoken to+.
+The Third Person denotes the one spoken of+.
A noun is said to be of the first person when joined as an explanatory modifier to a pronoun of the first person; as, I, John, saw these things; We Americans are always in a hurry. [Footnote: It is doubtful whether a noun is ever of the first person. It may be said that, in the sentence I, John, saw these things, John speaks of his own name, the expression meaning, I, and my name is John, etc.]
A noun is of the second person when used as explanatory of a pronoun of the second person, or when used independently as a term of address; as, Ye crags and peaks; Idle time, John, is ruinous.
+Direction+.—Compose sentences in which there shall be two examples of nouns and two of pronouns used in each of the three persons.
+Person Forms+.
Personal pronouns and verbs are the only classes of words that have distinctive person forms.
+Direction+.—From the forms of the pronouns given in Lesson 124, select and write in one list all the first person forms; in another list, all the second person forms; and in another, all the third person forms.
Person is regarded in grammar because the verb sometimes varies its form to agree with the person of its subject; as, I see; Thou seest; He sees.