Grammatical person and pronouns

28문장 0% 스페인어 번역 0명 참여 출처 : 칸아카데미
번역 0%

Grammatical person and pronouns발음듣기

[Voiceover] Serious question, grammarians.발음듣기

What's the difference between me and you?발음듣기

Well, in order to get, I mean I don't mean that, you know, in a snarky way, I mean that in like a conceptual way.발음듣기

What's the difference, in terms of these two pronouns, what separates them?발음듣기

Well, one's about me and one's about you, but that seems kind of like a pretty easy distinction that's right there on the face of it, right.발음듣기

English, like other languages, has this thing that grammarians call person.발음듣기

Obviously, we all know what a person is, it's a human being, but person as a grammatical concept is a way of distinguishing between me, you and everybody else.발음듣기

In fact, we have special terms for this.발음듣기

So, any group containing me is the first person.발음듣기

Any group containing you is the second person, and everybody else falls into the third person.발음듣기

So, whenever I talk about, you know, third person singular, or first person plural, all I'm really doing is going back to these columns of, am I involved, are you involved, or is everybody else involved?발음듣기

Right, so both me and us or I and we are first person pronouns, because they're about me or a group that contains me.발음듣기

Likewise, you is the second person.발음듣기

That's kind of it, both singular and plural.발음듣기

Everybody else, that's he, she, they, them, everybody, it, nothing, everything that is neither me nor you falls into the everybody else third person category.발음듣기

So, let's say you were giving someone advice in a kind of sideways way, like, one ought not to place one's hands on a hot stove.발음듣기

Alright, the temptation might be, in some cases, you might forget what pronoun you started out with.발음듣기

One is a third person pronoun and the temptation might sometimes be, you know, you forget about it, sounds like you're saying, a piece of advice, one ought not to place your hands on a hot stove.발음듣기

Well, you know, I mean this is still not a good idea to put your hands on a hot stove, but you have to remember which, what you're trying to connect here.발음듣기

This is a third person pronoun and this is a second person pronoun, and the two of them do not match up, they do not, as we say in grammar, agree, sad face.발음듣기

So, what you need to take care to do is to make sure that if you're, if you start off talking about one, even if you're being kind of silly and pompous, you've got to stick with one.발음듣기

If you start out talking about you, you got to stick with you, or I guess I could have changed this back to one but I wanted to pop with the pink.발음듣기

Because if you don't do this, then you run the risk of being confusing and unclear.발음듣기

So, you have to make sure that if you start off using one grammatical person, you have to maintain use of that grammatical person for as long as you're talking about the same notion, the same idea, the same person.발음듣기

I used to take harmony singing classes at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and I had this instructor who said that the best way to sing harmony was to remember to stay in your lane and I think that's a good way to conceive how to think about grammatical person is if you start in one lane, don't cross over by the end of the sentence.발음듣기

Begin, begin your sentence in the same lane as you started.발음듣기

You can learn anything, David out.발음듣기

Top