Match the point of view with the proper sample.Match Term Definition First person A) "They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never have favourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who meant extremely well." Second person B) "You never considered it. Why should you? There's no need to continue training—it's not going to happen. You have done the right thing by resigning yourself to the fact that that medal could never be yours. The other fighters trained harder, longer, and more strategically than you. You sold yourself short the moment you decided to take those two months off." Third person C) "The trip from Franklin County to Malden, West Virginia, was the first one that had taken me out of the county where I was born, and, of course, it was quite an event, especially to the children of the family, although the parting from the old homestead was to my mother a very serious affair. All of our household and other goods were packed into a small wagon drawn by two horses or mules. I cannot recall how many days it took us to make this trip, but it seems to me, as I recall it now, that we were at least ten days. Of course we had to sleep in the wagon, or what was more often true, on the ground. The children walked a great portion of the distance."
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Match the point of view with the proper sample.Match Term Definition First person A) "They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never have favourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who meant extremely well." Second person B) "You never considered it. Why should you? There's no need to continue training—it's not going to happen. You have done the right thing by resigning yourself to the fact that that medal could never be yours. The other fighters trained harder, longer, and more strategically than you. You sold yourself short the moment you decided to take those two months off." Third person C) "The trip from Franklin County to Malden, West Virginia, was the first one that had taken me out of the county where I was born, and, of course, it was quite an event, especially to the children of the family, although the parting from the old homestead was to my mother a very serious affair. All of our household and other goods were packed into a small wagon drawn by two horses or mules. I cannot recall how many days it took us to make this trip, but it seems to me, as I recall it now, that we were at least ten days. Of course we had to sleep in the wagon, or what was more often true, on the ground. The children walked a great portion of the distance."
Solution
The first person point of view is matched with the sample text C. This is because the narrator is part of the story and uses pronouns like "I" and "we".
The second person point of view is matched with the sample text B. This is because the narrator is speaking directly to the reader, using pronouns like "you" and "your".
The third person point of view is matched with the sample text A. This is because the narrator is not part of the story and uses pronouns like "he", "she", "they", and names of people or things.
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