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person vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs person

person and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
person Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of person; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than person:
  • person: a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
  • grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of person include syntactic category.
person (noun) grammatical category (noun)
a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
a human body (usually including the clothing)
a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
Difference between person and grammatical category

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