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Third Person Singular Past Tense (He/She/It went...)
And here we hit our second biggie — our most likely main choice Point of View.
In the very first part of the guide we looked at First Person Singular Past Tense. And along with the Third Person Singular Past Tense, this is one of what you...
Second Person Singular Future Tense (You Will Go)
A shorter chapter this one.
Because a weirder POV.
The Second Person Singular Future Tense (You [you specifically] will go...) is famously used by David Foster Wallace towards the end of ‘Forever Overhead’.
(Famously, for those of us who...
Second Person Singular Present Tense (You Go)
Just as Second Person has been on the rise, so has Present Tense.
And the two of them in combination are therefore taken to be the most immediate, the most immersive possible POV.
The question is, do you want a novel to be RIGHT UP IN YOU...
Second Person Singular Past Tense (You went...)
You saw the email in your inbox and you clicked on it.
And then — after glancing at the header — you started reading the first sentence, which began, ‘You saw the email in your inbox…’
At which point, the you who has been doing the re...
First Person Singular Future Tense (I will go...)
Tricky.
For this tense (I will go...), I had at first to make up an example. Because I couldn’t find one to share.
This is an example of how this POV is most often used:
When the money comes through, the first thing I will do is go out...
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