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# narration

«narration» in Mova's school dictionary: **The telling of a story, especially by a narrator** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (narration, uncountable; a narration)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The telling of a story, especially by a narrator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#m1)

2) The spoken words that explain what is happening in a film, show or play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#m2)

3) In grammar, narration means reporting what someone said without using their exact words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils learn first-person narration (I, we) and third-person narration (he, she, they). Documentaries have a narration.

### examples

- The story is told in first-person narration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#x1)
- Who does the narration in the nature film? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#x2)
- Her narration was clear and lively. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#x3)
- The play had narration between the scenes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#x4)
- Alice in Wonderland uses third-person narration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#x5)
- Record your narration over the slides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#x6)
- I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique narration, and toned down the dialect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/#x7)

### note

Narrate = tell; narrator = the teller; narrative = the story.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «narration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.