5. They told me that the ( are/ were) going to move their house the following month. 6. My sister said she (can/ could) win the competion if she tried her best.
7. I told Jim that he ( is/ was) the most intelligent person I knew.
8. The mechanic said that it ( cost/ costs ) up to $50 to fix my car.
9. The ( say/ said) that they would help me if they had free time.
10. Jim said that he ( has just got / had just got ) a new bike.

The difference between point of view and choice of person in a story is that "person" is the literary name given to main characters in a story, and "point of view" is the perspective from which we view the story "person" is part of a term used to describe the type of narrator (as in first-person or third-person); "point of view" is how the antagonist understands the events of a story the terms are interchangeable; there is really no difference between them "point of view" refers to the perspective from which the story is told; "person" is part of a term used to describe a type of narrator (as in first-person or third-person)