What Does Writing In First Person Mean

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noun

the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular ) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural ).

a pronoun or verb form in the first person, as I or am in English, or a set of such forms.

a literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly about himself or herself: a story written in the first person.

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Origin of first person

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby first person

first officer, first-order, first papers, first-past-the-post, First Peoples, first person, first-person shooter, First Point of Aries, first position, first post, first principle

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How to use first person in a sentence

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

He sees himself as the first Muslim president of all Europe.
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

British Dictionary definitions for first person

noun

a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself or herself, either alone (first person singular) or together with others (first person plural)

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