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This is perfectly valid, it's just a more passive variant on the first-person formula. The active version is 'I heard footsteps coming down the alley', but this is fine. Especially so if the narrator is supposed to think in a rational or objective/scientific way; passive tone is often a requirement in scientific papers.

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: Re: Can I state a fact in a first person story? If I have a sentence such as this: Footsteps were heard coming down the alley. Can I use that in a first-person story? I don't think it's

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: The "true story" behind Jeanne d'Arc is unclear and hidden by a lot of use in propaganda over the century. This mean you still have some choice over who your Catherine/Jeanne and what are

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