1.   Green will enhance his chances of winning the mayoralty if he can somehow relinquish his obsession with the first person singular.

2.   Gray is the grand master of the first person singular, a performer who has turned self-absorption into a cottage industry.

3.   Kruger never refers to himself in the first person singular.

4.   Thank you for smoking, carrying a concealed weapon and using the masculine third person singular.

5.   The first person singular is more likely to be a fictional character who speaks ironically or through indirection.

6.   Too much of the first person singular makes the user seem self-absorbed, inward-looking.