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Narration
Narration
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Narration
The act of telling a story or giving an account of
something.
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Forms of Narration
Speech bobbles Dramatic form With inverted commas (
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Speech Bubble
O Yes.
Dramatic form
Ali: You are not looking fine today. Sherry Sherry: O Yes
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The actual words (said by the persons) She said, I play piano in the evening as hobby.
Reporting Speech Reported Speech
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First persons according to the subject of reporting speech Second persons according to the object of reporting speech Third persons remain unchanged
Words
Tenses
(If the reporting speech is in present or future there were will not be any change in the tenses of reported speech but if it is in past tense the changes will be as follows)
v Present (continuous / perfect) v Past v Past continuous v Past perfect v Shall, Will v Can v May
Past / Past perfect Past perfect continuous unchanged Would could might
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Interrogatives
Questions with helping verb (take if )
They said, Is she your sister? They asked if she was my sister. My mother said, are you going to school today? mother asked if I was going to school that day.
WH Questions
They said to me, Where do you live? They asked me that where I lived.
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Imperatives
In imperatives the sense in which the sentence is said
He said to me, Close the door. She said, lets go to picnic! She suggested to go to picnic. He said, Please open the door.
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EXCLAIMATORY
rupees.
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OPTATIVES
They said, May you perform hajj.
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Universal Truth
In universal truth there will be no change in the reported speech at all.
Teacher said, The Earth rotates around the Sun.
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Thanks
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