first person singular
The speaker alone
First person singular refers to the grammatical category for a speaker referring to themselves alone.
In English, this means pronouns like I, me, my, and mine, along with verb forms that accompany them.
A narrative written in the first person singular uses "I" as its voice.
The term distinguishes from first person plural (we, us), where the speaker includes others.
- IFirst-person subject pronoun
- meFirst-person object pronoun
- myselfFirst-person reflexive pronoun
- egoOne's self-image
- selfOne's own being
subject · narrator · unreliable narrator · point of view · speaker · inner voice · my · mine · alone · individual · subjective · solitary · solo act · voice · stream of consciousness · perspective · autobiography · memoir
first person singularthird person singular
Subject neither speaker nor listener
third person · he · she · it · second person
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