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second person

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second person
a) In grammar, the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct.

"Are" is the second person of "to be"

b) A form of narrative writing using verbs in the second person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the reader.

"hast" is the second person singular of the German verb "haben"

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Фильмы

  • Born For the Second Time, 1971 — About the Volgograd Tractor Plant named after Dzerzhinsky (a Russian revolutionary), about history of its construction, about its present activity.
  • The Second Life of Tutankhamen, 1974 — About the Exhibition of riches of Tutankhamen's tomb in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
  • Lenin. Pages Of A Great Life., 1977 — AThe film tells about Lenin, separate periods of his life.