Question

How can you rewrite the following sentence from the first-person perspective of someone in the sentence?: Jim asked the mechanic to fix his car, before his date with Stephanie.

Answer 1

Hint: Observe that there are mainly three people in the sentence. Jim, mechanic and Stephanie. Therefore, this sentence can be written in three Point of View ways. Let's discuss them one by one.

Complete answer:
From the point of view of Jim: I asked the mechanic to fix my car before my date with Stephanie. In this sentence, Jim is in the first person, we are simply portraying how Jim would say this sentence from his point of view. Hence, this is the first way.

From the point of view of the mechanic: Jim asked me to fix his car before his date with Stephanie. In this sentence, the mechanic is in the first person, we are simply portraying how the mechanic would say this sentence from his point of view. Hence, this is the second way.

From the point of view of Stephanie: Jim asked the mechanic to fix his car before my date with him. In this sentence, Stephanie is in the first person, we are simply portraying how Stephanie would say this sentence from her point of view. Hence, this is the third way.

Note: The sentence can be framed in many ways as per the subjects and objects in a given sentence. Here there are mainly three people. Therefore, this sentence can be framed in three different ways. There can be more or less ways of writing questions like this. But mainly it depends on the subjects and objects in a sentence.