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3. Whose role is the most important in the story? Complete this graphic organizer with

information from the story. life skill analytical thinking

His/Her words What others feel about
this character

Name of the person

How does he/she resolve the Why is he/she important?
conflict in the story?

Now, analyse the information and isolate the facts that you think are important.

Time to study language

Read these sentences. Notice the highlighted words.

• Thunder continued to strike.

• I love scaring people.

• The Otis family lived in a haunted castle.

In these sentences, the underlined words are finite verbs. And the highlighted words are
nonfinite verbs.

A finite verb is a verb that has a subject and shows tense, person and number. This means that it
can be the main verb in a sentence. For example,

• She talks.

• They talk.

• She is talking.

• They are talking.

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