What is The Narration? Narration Definition and Examples Sentences
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Narration
What Is The Narration?
The act of narrating a narrative; the recounting of an incident or set of events.
A person’s message, or the words uttered by a person to another person, can be conveyed in two ways.
- Direct Speech: A statement (or numerous words) that reflects speech or thinking in its original form, as articulated by the original speaker, is known as direct or quoted speech. In most cases, quote marks are used to enclose it. The referenced speaker is either explicitly named (Latin “he/she says”) or implied in the inquiry.
- Mia said, “I will buy you a bag”.
- Indirect Speech: Indirect speech, also known as reported speech or indirect discourse, is a way of presenting the substance of comments, questions, or other utterances without overtly citing them as direct speech does. For example, indirect speech is He stated “I’m coming,” but indirect communication is He claimed he was coming. It’s important to distinguish between indirect speech and indirect speech activities.
- Mia said that she would buy me a bag.
! The reporting verb is the verb that comes before the statement of a person in a sentence (i.e. he said, she said, he says, they said, she says).
- She said, “I work in a school” (Direct speech)
- She said that she worked in a school. (Indirect speech)
- They said, “we are going to the party” (Direct speech)
- They said that they were going to the party. (Indirect speech)
! Report speech is the second part of indirect speech in which a person has told something (which is wrapped in quotation marks indirect speech). He mentioned he worked in a factory, for example, is an example of indirect communication. The second portion of this statement, “he worked in a factory,” is referred to as reported speech, and so indirect speech is referred to as reported speech.
Rules for indirect speech
- Quote marks are not used around reported speech.
- The word “that” is used as a conjunction between the reporting verb and the speech that is being reported.
- Change in pronoun: The pronoun (subject) of the reported utterance is modified by the reporting verb’s pronoun or object (person) (first part of the sentence). The pronoun may not always change.
Change in the Tense of Reported Speech
The tense of reported speech will change if the first portion of the phrase (the reporting verb element) is in the past tense. The tense of reported speech will not change whether the first portion of the phrase (the reporting verb element) is in the present or future tense.
Direct speech: My mother said, “I am happy”
Indirect Speech: My mother said that she was happy. (Tense of reported speech changed)
Direct speech: My mother says, “I am happy”
Indirect Speech: My mother said that she is happy. (Tense of reported speech didn’t change)
