The notion of “appropriateness” of analytic categories for a particular language has not always been a consideration. In traditional grammar books, tables such as the following were often presented for English verbs, constructed by analogy with similar tables of forms in Latin grammars. The forms for the Latin verb am are (“to love”) are listed on the right
First person singular (I) love amo
Present tense, active Second person singular (you) love amas
 Third person singular (she) loves amat
 First person plural (we) love amamus
 Second person plural (you) love amatis
 Third person plural (they) love amant
Each of the Latin verb forms is different, according to the categories of person and number, yet the English verb forms are (with one exception) mostly the same. Thus it makes sense, in describing a language such as Latin, to have all those descriptive categories to characterize verb forms, but they don’t really describe verb forms in English. In English, it makes more sense to say the categories describe different pronouns. The influence of Latin, however, goes beyond the types of descriptive labels.