the first personnoun [ S ]
uk/ˌfɜːst ˈpɜː.sən/us/ˌfɝːst ˈpɝː.sən/B2 the form of a verb or pronoun that is used when people are speaking or writing about themselves:
Autobiographies are written in the first person.
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- The novel is written in the first person, so that the author and narrator seem to be the same.
- In Dickens' "Great Expectations", the story is told in the first person, with Pip as the narrator.
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Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
- accusative
- arose
- art
- aspect
- began
- bent
- conjugate
- ditransitive
- historic present
- linking verb
- main verb
- passivize
- past participle
- predicate
- progressive
- the future perfect
- the pluperfect
- the present simple
- the third person
- wast
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