Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e

Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College

Topics, Main Ideas, and Details

Point Of View - Selection 1

Directions: Match the statements or actions in Column B with the people listed in Column A (Use Only The Letter).

Column A

A. Roger
B. Elaine
C. Elaine's private thoughts
D. Roger's private thoughts
E. Dave Barry, author

Column B


1		"It's easy to develop a long-term, intimate and mutually fulfilling relationship with a guy. Of course, the guy has to be a Labrador retriever."


2		"Do you realize we've been seeing each other for exactly six months?"


3		"…I'm not so sure I want this kind of relationship… Am I ready for that level of commitment? Do I really even know this person?"


4		"[W]hoa! I am way overdue for an oil change here."


5		"I feel so guilty…but I can't help the way I feel. I'm just not sure."


6		"Norm, did Elaine ever own a horse?"


7		"If the guy brain has to form an opinion about another person, it prefers to base it on facts, such as his or her earned-run average."


8		"I'm such a fool."


9		"There's no horse?"


10		"…[T]he No. 1 tip for women to remember is never assume the guy understands that you and he have a relationship. You have to plant the idea in his brain by constantly making subtle references to it…"

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