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Second Person Plural Future (You [both/all of you] will go...)
Thank you, Lucy Caldwell.
With your story, ‘Cyprus Avenue’, you’ve given a wonderful example of this POV in action.
The Second Person Plural Future Tense. (You [both/all of you] will go...)
‘Cyprus Avenue’ was published as a ‘Heartwarmin...
Second Person Plural Present Tense (You go...)
We come to yet another rarity.
So rare that I’ve had to make up my first example.
You rush up the stairs towards the flat, but still keeping your boots quiet. All the time, you’re receiving detailed instructions through your earpieces....
Second Person Plural Past Tense (You [both/all of you] went...)
Another rare, because constricting, maybe strangling, POV.
Second Person Plural Past isn’t as popular as some of the other until-recently-unmodish tenses.
Though it’s in fairly common use.
It’s the POV a parent or carer would use, when t...
First Person Plural Future Tense (We [both/all of us] will go…)
We now reach a very obscure, rarely visited POV.
The First Person Plural Future Tense.
It may be that writers have avoided this POV because, by default, it lacks immediacy.
I had to make up an example — couldn’t find one.
We will clim...
First Person Plural Present Tense (We go…)
A recent-ish novel, Dizz Tate’s Brutes (Faber 2023), uses this insistent POV —
When we wake up, the sun has just appeared, a thick red muscle bleeding low across the lake. We rub our eyes and stare. The women have returned to the ground....
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