Na m e : _______________________________________ Date: _____________________
Directions: Read each sentence and decide in which person the sentence is written. In the space
provided, write a 1 for first person, a 2 for second person, or a 3 for third person.
Just focus on whomever the author is talking about.
- Because he was sick on Saturday, Pat missed the bowling tournament. ____
- Our neighbor’s dog broke his chain. ____
- Great Aunt Phyllis lost her keys at the market. ____
- All of your childhood heroes were cowboys. ____
- I hope the new girl, Jessica, is in my class. ____
- My sister, Sheila, performed a dance for the whole family! ____
- The construction worker placed his hammer atop a steel beam. ____
- I had no choice other than to tell Sally that I had taken the last cookie. ____
- Marie Curie, a French scientist, was awarded two Nobel prizes for her
work in physics and chemistry. ____
- You darted around the room like a butterfly. ____
Have you ever noticed that some stories are written using
different points of view?
- If an author writes a story about himself, he will refer
to himself as “I”. That story, like an autobiography, is
told in the first person.
- If an author writes a story about you, using “you,”
then it’s written in the second person.
- If an author writes a story about someone else, like
Brian, Brenda, or anyone else, then the story is
written in the third person.
I, you,
she...
