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"Oh, no!" I heard my mother scream when I woke up that morning. There was a stink of burnt eggs and bacon in the air. "I've burnt breakfast!" she yelled. I went into the kitchen and walked into a cloud of black smoke.
First Person
He didn't know where to run, so he just hid behind a barrel. He could hear them looking for him, heard the men talking in angry voices. He was so scared he was afraid to breathe. "I heard him run around this way," said the big man.
3rd Person
You never start a sentence with a preposition, my teacher told me.
1st person
Rainbow was a Yorkie and she got lost in the woods on Halloween. Becky, her owner, a twelve-year-old girl, searched the house, under her bed, the garage, but couldn't find her. Mrs. Thompson, her neighbor, helped look, too.
3rd Person
"Here's the deal," she said to me. "I'll let you come in from the cold if you show me how you shoot that bow and arrow." "This?" I said, holding it up. "It's easy. But it takes practice." "I have all the patience in the world," she said.
3rd person
After the fair ended, we ended up taking a stroll by the river. We hadn't been there in years and the images were comforting to me: a sail boat glided along the water, above it three birds darted through the clouds. Fishermen everywhere.
1st Person
The girl was hungry. She could feel the aches in her belly, like some crab was in there. She had been on the road for two weeks and knew she had to find something to eat. She found a field and some apple trees. She ran for them.
3rd Person
The Dursleys hadn’t even remembered that today happened to be Harry’s twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn’t been high; they’d never given him a real present, let alone a cake – but to ignore it completely…
3rd Person
Dave sat up on his surfboard and looked towards the shore. Two people, John and Brian, were paddling up to the line up. “Nice day,” Dave said. Dave looked out to the shoulder, afraid. John thought he was a coward.
3rd Person
I, me, my, mine, we, us, ours are words that belong to which point of view.
1st Person
We crossed the road to a white house inside a walled garden, and found some food—two loaves of bread, and uncooked steak, and half of a ham. Label the point of view.
1st Person
He, she, it, they, them, theirs, and the reader are examples of words that belong to which point of view.
3rd Person
