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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you give an example of a sentence where you address someone in person using the third person pronoun?
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"Ms. Smith, this is my mom. Mom, this is Ms. Smith. She's my history teacher."[/quote]

That’s not addressing your teacher- you are speaking to your mom at that point. 
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Hit send too soon.

So I still don’t see how the third person pronoun matters in addressing the teacher, which is the question asked in the subject. 
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I'm sure the person can still file a complaint if you refer to them in the third person, in front of them, if you use a non-preferred pronoun. The point is that you don't only use the third person form when the person isn't around. [/quote]

That’s not what was asked in the subject. They wanted to know how to address the teacher, not how to speak about the teacher in third person in front of them.

And it seems pretty obvious that either they or she is accepted if the occasion demands that you use a third person pronoun in front of the person you are speaking of.

Is this the first email you’ve received from the teacher this school year? Or did the teacher just recently change her signature block? How has your child been addressing the teacher since the start of the school year?
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