What is narration or speech and some details about it | Mr.Grammar.

What is narration or speech and some details about it | Mr.Grammar. 

 

Narration 

》What is Narration/ Speech?

Ans: The reporting of a speaker's speech to another person is called a Narration/Speech. 

》There are two types of Narration. 

○Direct Narration. 

○Indirect Narration. 

Direct Narration: When a speech is quoted in the actual words used by the speaker, it is called the Direct Speech or Narration. It is placed inside the inverted(" ") comma. As like-

Mina said, " I am well ".

Indirect Narration: When the speech is reported in the form of a narrative, giving the substance or meaning of the words used by the speaker, without quoting his actual words, it is called the Indirect Narration or Speech. As like-

Mina said that she was well. 

FEATURES OF DIRECT SPEECH 

○The inner part of the inverted comma is called the Reported Speech and the outer part is called the Reporting verb or Saying verb.

○If the reporting verb is present / future tense, there is no change in the verb / tense of the reported speech. Only the person changes.

○The first person in the reported speech always varies according to the subject and person of the reporting verb.

○The second person in the reported speech always varies according to the object of the reporting verb.

◇If you want to learn narration well, we have to have some idea about the person. Below are some of the personas. Please zoom it. 

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