Additional persons
The grammar of some languages divide the semantic space into more than three persons. The extra categories may be termed fourth person, fifth person, etc. Such terms are not absolute but can refer depending on context to any of several phenomena.
Point of view describes the perspective from which a story is told. When writing a work of fiction, the writer must choose a narrator that will best showcase the plot of the story. There are three main types of point of view: first-person, second-person, and third-person.
The 4th person is a new emerging point-of-view. It is a group or collective perspective corresponding to “we” or “us”. A global top-down perspective. The 4th person functions as a collection of perspectives rather than a single objectivity.
The second-person point of view is rarely used in fiction because it can be very difficult to do well. Many writers have found that it can be hard to develop a set of characters and a story in which the second person is appropriate.
Second-person view – This narrator refers to the reader as “you” as if he or she was a character within the story. It's the rarest mode of narration in literature.
Third person point of view is perhaps the most commonly used perspective. It can give the author more flexibility than the other two perspectives, especially with third person multiple or omniscient. The advantage of third person is that the author can write from a broader perspective.
There are six key terms used in the study of narrative view point: first-person, second-person, third-person, third-person objective, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient.
Limited omniscient point of view (often called a “close third”) is when an author sticks closely to one character but remains in third person. The narrator can switch between different characters, but will stay doggedly with one until the end of a chapter or section.
A paper using first-person point of view uses pronouns such as "I," "me," "we," and "us." A paper using second-person point of view uses the pronoun "you."
However, there is another option: writing from multiple points of view. This means telling your story from the perspective of two or more characters, weaving the story together by alternating between viewpoints. Multi-POV stories are particularly common in speculative fiction, but can be found in any genre.
We do not know how many daughters were born by Eve before the birth of Seth after Abel's death. There was a gap of more than a century between Adam's creation and Seth's birth. So we only know of the named people, of which Seth was the 5th named person.
Most of the time, people is the correct word to choose as a plural for person. Persons is archaic, and it is safe to avoid using it, except in legal writing, which has its own traditional language. Peoples is only necessary when you refer to distinct ethnic groups (for example, within the same region).
Fourth Person Point of View
Fourth person is a newer POV that only recently started to be recognized as a distinct POV. It involves a collective perspective, using the plural pronouns we and us. This POV allows you to tell a story from the perspective of a group, rather than an individual.
At HGW we always follow the desires of our client, but we believe first person present tense is the best way to write your romance novel. And if you can alternate between the two love interests every other chapter, even better! This style gives your reader the most bang for their buck!
To some extent, all first person narrators are unreliable. After all, they're recounting events filtered through their own unique set of experiences, beliefs and biases. There isn't just one absolute experience of reality.
Writing your novel in First Person makes it easiest to limit yourself to that one perspective character, but Third-Person Limited is the most common.
The chief reason many agents and editors prefer third person and call it the “professional” POV, is that the overwhelming percentage of successful books and bestsellers are written in third person. This isn't an accident. There are reasons this is the case.
The third person point of view that refers to groups include the following: Everyone. Anyone. Them.
According to the Priestly (P) history of the 5th or 6th century bce (Genesis 1:1–2:4), God on the sixth day of Creation created all the living creatures and, “in his own image,” man both “male and female.” God then blessed the couple, told them to be “fruitful and multiply,” and gave them dominion over all other living ...
Genesis 1–2 tells the story of God's creation of the world. On the first day, God created light in the darkness. On the second, He created the sky. Dry land and plants were created on the third day.