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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by grandma

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which to be honest is a lot better than the prune bars usually hands out take a [Grandma sits beside boy with prune bars]

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look at this sentence the kids are all hoping to see snow when they visit grandma for

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Christmas and sweet all right here's our question identify the sentence as first [Question appears]

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person or third person narration then identify which character's thoughts or

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feelings are being revealed and here are potential answers and in first person

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okay well we might not be as sweet as old granny but we'll still give you a [Grandma holding plate of prune bars]

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hint ask yourself wave of a narrator is

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outside of the story or inside the story personally we hope they're outside it [Boy trapped inside a book]

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can be a bit crowded in there this question is really two questions in

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disguise seriously look closely see how one is

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standing on the other shoulders underneath that trenchcoat

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so our questions are as follows what person is the narration in and whose [Questions appear]

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thoughts and feelings are being revealed let's try that first one first the

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difference between first person and third person is whether the narrator is

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inside or outside the story it's the story someone's direct account or does [Woman talking through headset]

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the story kind of come from nowhere well let's take a look at our sentence and

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find out we've got a few characters in there the kids and Grandma [Grandma and children appear]

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however none of them seem to be telling this story the sentence doesn't say I

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just can't wait to mimic grandma and play in the snow this Christmas yeah [Young girl speaking on telephone]

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that would be an example of first person that means our story is definitely being

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told in third person even though this isn't being told from a character's

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perspective we can still ask who thoughts and feelings are being revealed [Girl raises arm and asked answer by teacher]

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see that bit are all hoping yeah those are the kids thoughts and feelings so

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we've got a third person narration revealing the thoughts and feelings of

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the kids only one of our answers takes both those boxes and that'd be C that's

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a lot of information to fit in at once in why almost as impressive as the [Man wiping sweat from forehead]

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number of cool bars we've managed to hide in our closet [Girl opens closet and prune bars fall on her]

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