Second person point of view uses the pronoun “you” to address the reader. This narrative voice implies that the reader is either the protagonist or a character in the story and the events are happening to them.

Lesson Summary The three simple words we know as second-person pronouns – you, your, and yours – can be used in many ways. These are the words we use when our speech or writing is directed to a specific person or group.

This name derives from the fact that such a narrative will often use forms such as “I saw …” and “It made me feel …”, but note that by no means all of the verbs and pronouns in such a narrative will be first person – there will usually be plenty of third person forms too.

In second person point of view, the action is shot from the perspective of a character that is not the protagonist. It can also refer to second-person in the narrative sense, where the protagonist is the person playing the game.

Second person storytelling involves someone telling someone else’s story from their own perspective (e.g “I saw him talking to the girl”). While there are many first person and third person games, I’ve never really heard of a second person game.

In Super Mario 64, you are playing two characters: Mario and the Lakitu cameraman. Wouldn’t it be first person, from the perspective of Lakitu? The main character can only access important items in view of you, the second person.

“2nd Person” is appropriate for games like Zork. Don’t confuse the game character with the game’s narrator. The player is still acting from a first-person perspective (e.g. “I am picking up this object”).

To make a past passive form we use was/were + past participle of the verb. My car was repairing at that time. My car was being repaired at that time. To make a past passive form of a continuous tense we use was/were + being + past participle of the verb.

To identify passive voice, look at what happened and look at who was responsible for doing it. If the person or thing responsible for doing the actions is either omitted or occurs in the sentence AFTER the thing that happened, AND if you see a past participle straight after the form of “to be,” it’s passive voice.

Use passive voice to describe past events, focusing on the object of a verb to emphasize who or what receives an action instead of who or what performs it.