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When a speaker uses the words you yours yourself she is using person first second third?

The speaker is using second person.

Here's why:

* First person refers to the speaker (I, me, my, mine, myself).

* Second person refers to the person being spoken to (you, yours, yourself).

* Third person refers to someone or something else (he, she, it, they, them, his, hers, theirs, himself, herself, themselves).

Since the speaker is using "you", "yours", and "yourself", they are directly addressing the listener, which is characteristic of second person.

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