when we talk about ourselves, our opinions, and the things that happen to us, we generally speak in the first person. the biggest clue that a sentence is written in the first person is the use of first-person pronouns. in the first sentence of this paragraph, the pronouns appear in bold text. we, us, our, and ourselves are all first-person pronouns. specifically, they are plural first-person pronouns. singular first-person pronouns include i, me, my, mine and myself.