Narration | Reported Speech

Narration is telling people what is happening in a situation. Reported speech is telling what someone else has said. To narrate it is mandatory to use third person (people's name, he, she, they and ect), because when a situation is narrated, it is written as if the author is telling a person who is not present about what they are witnessing.

First write who is speaking, followed by a dialogue word (said, shouted, growled, assured and ect).

After that write who the speaker is talking to (e.g: Debbie shouted at her kids....).

Next write what the person is saying but without quotation marks. Be sure to change all the first and second person words to third person words (e.g: Debbie shouted at her kids to brush their teeth).

Finally, finish the sentence with a full stop (.).

Narration is a good way to practise talking about what someone else has said to another person without saying exactly what they said.

LI: To narrate a scene using reported speech.