[NARRATION CHANGE]

NARRATION CHANGE

Narration is the use of—or the process of using—written or spoken words to convey a story to an audience. Narration encompasses a set of methods, known collectively as the narrative mode, through which the creator of the story presents their work, including:

• Narrative point of view: the type of personal or non-personal perspective through which a story is communicated
• Narrative voice: the general "look" or "feel" of how a story is communicated
• Narrative time: the grammatical positioning of a story in the past, present, or future

A narrator is either a personal character or a non-personal voice created by the author to deliver information to the audience about the plot and, often, other narrative information. The narrator may be a person devised by the author as an anonymous or stand-alone entity; the author themselves; or a fictional or non-fictional character within their own story. The narrator is considered participant if he/she is a character in the story, and non-participant if he/she is an implied character or an omniscient or semi-omniscient being who merely relates the story to the reader.

The art of reporting the words of a speaker is called Narration.

There are two main ways of reporting the words of a speaker.

1. Direct Speech

2. Indirect Speech

Direct Speech

In this form the actual words of the speaker are put in quotes “ ” .
Ex:-

1. Rama said,” I am very busy now.”
2. In the above example the Speaker i.e
3. Rama is known as Reporter,
4. said is known as Reporting verb and
5. “I am very busy now.” is known as Reported Speech.

Indirect Speech

In this form the actual words of the speaker are transformed and said/written in simple manner.

Ex:-

• Rama said that he was very busy then.

Basic rules to convert a Direct Speech to Indirect Speech.

There are five basic things that have to be changed while converting a Direct speech to an Indirect speech.

1. To change the reporting verb according to the reported speech.
2. To remove the inverted comma’s from the direct speech and replace them with an appropriate conjunction.
3. To change the pronoun of reported speech accordingly.
4. Change the adverbs of the Direct Speech.

Rules of change of Pronouns

Necessary Changes in Words