Sample Sentences for
first person perspective
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first person as in:  written in first person

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    Text-based adventures, first-person shooters, third-person RPGs.  (source)
    first-person = seen through the eyes of a participant (rather than an observer)
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    So it was that Mishka began to describe his life in Yavas; and as he did so, he used the first person plural so often that the Count assumed he must have moved there with a fellow inmate from the camps.  (source)
    first person plural = grammatical technique of telling a story using the pronouns "we" and "us"
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    Four days later, the newspaper ran yet another article about the meeting, this one a first-person account written by Mrs. Adler.  (source)
    first-person = seen through the eyes of a participant (rather than an observer)
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    The editors demanded that I write two stories, one about the hunt itself, and a first-person story about what happened to me, one that could only make me look like an idiot.  (source)
    first-person = seen through the eyes of a participant (rather than an observer)
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    It seemed natural that Mr. Patel's story should be told mostly in the first person—in his voice and through his eyes.  (source)
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    Worse yet is an occasional use of the first person singular in such a way as to suggest that I might have control.  (source)
    first person singular = grammatical technique of telling a story using the pronouns "I" and "me"
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    The Institute was a universe in love with the first person plural, the shout of the uniformed mob, which gave the school its fundamental identity, the source of its strength and invulnerability.†  (source)
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    After a moment, he's surprised to find his thoughts racing backward to an in-class writing assignment on his first day of school last fall-a first-person autobiography in Wheelock's class.  (source)
    first-person = seen through the eyes of a participant (rather than an observer)
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    This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad TURPIN HERO which begins in the first person and ends in the third person.  (source)
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    He never calls me we, the way some of them do: he does understand the importance of the first person singular.  (source)
    first person singular = grammatical technique of telling a story using the pronouns "I" and "me"
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    A year before, I had published a piece in The New York Times Magazine, a first-person account of my rape.  (source)
    first-person = seen through the eyes of a participant (rather than an observer)
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    While written in the first person, my experiences are universal, and I'm no better or worse than any man I've served with.†  (source)
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    I observed that the latter always spoke of himself indefinitely, as 'a man', and seldom or never in the first person singular.  (source)
    first person singular = grammatical technique of telling a story using the pronouns "I" and "me"
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    She'd become the first person in history to hit someone through a phone.  (source)
    first person = a person who is first
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    Of course I'm not the first person he would go to—not the first, not the prettiest, not desirable.  (source)
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    The first person to find my Easter egg will inherit my entire fortune.  (source)
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    I realized that my Lobot hearing aids actually made me hear better than most people, because I was usually the first person to hear a new bird call.  (source)
    first person = a person who is first
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    He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat, that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.  (source)
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    The chief minister of KPK was the first person who called.  (source)
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    So I'm not the first person to ask the question.  (source)
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    I've never seen him in Jim's house, and yet he was the first person Jim called.  (source)
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    The first person we saw was Moody Spurgeon sitting on the steps and muttering away to himself.  (source)
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    He was six days going home, though he was not swimming slowly; and when he hauled out just above Sea Lion's Neck the first person he met was the seal who had been waiting for him, and she saw by the look in his eyes that he had found his island at last.  (source)
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    He was the first person to whom I had uttered the details of what had happened.  (source)
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    This was the first person, other than Peter, who had been offered up for sacrifice.  (source)
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    The first person to whom that idea occurred, Stephen answered, was Jesus himself.  (source)
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