the third person

the third person
the set of pronouns and verb forms used for referring to someone or something that is not the speaker or the person being spoken to

The verb needs to be in the third person singular.

third person pronouns

Thesaurus: verb forms and tenseshyponym pronounshyponym

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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