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Remember the pronouns for second person – they start with “y”

Viewpoint pronouns, which start with a “y”, are used in second-person writing.

If you see the following pronouns used to indicate the viewpoint of a writer, then the text is described as second person.

Second person: you, your, yours.

To remember this, the following will help:

Second person is where you talk about someone else

The second from last in the alphabet is Y. Second person pronouns start with a Y.

Example

This sentence is an example of second person writing:

Your dreams are unique to you, but dreams fall into certain categories and you can interpret yours by first categorising them and then looking at the finer detail.

NOTE:

“them” is not from the writer’s viewpoint so is not considered when determining whether the sentence is first, second or third person.

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