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Target 5: Verbs and the Three Persons!

Task 1
1 point

A. The subject of each sentence below is underlined and the correct box ticked
to show whether the subject is first, second or third person.

1. I am going to visit my uncle.

FIRST PERSON √ SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON

2. Yesterday, they went fishing in Blackwood Lake.

FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON √

3. Carl is learning to play the trumpet.

FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON √

4. On Fridays, we go to the bowling alley in town.

FIRST PERSON √ SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON

5. You met my brother at Greg’s party.

FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON
√

6. She stays at home on rainy days.

FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON √

7. You enjoyed the football match on Saturday.

FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON
√

8. It was a fine, sunny day.

FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON √

B. Completed tables for the verbs ‘to stop’ and ‘to think’:

VERB: TO STOP Singular Plural
First person I stop we stop

Second person you stop you stop

Third person he stops they stop

VERB: TO THINK Singular Plural
First person I think we think

Second person you think you think
Third person he thinks they think

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