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# narrative

«narrative» in Mova's school dictionary: **A story, or a description of events in order** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a narrative, narratives); adjective (narrative)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A story, or a description of events in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#m1)

2) (adjective) Telling a story (narrative writing, a narrative poem). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#m2)

3) The way a story or set of events is told or explained (the official narrative). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons: narrative writing has a beginning, middle and end, characters and a setting. A narrative poem tells a story. In the news, a narrative is the story people tell about events. Phrases: narrative writing, first-person narrative, narrative poem.

### examples

- Write a narrative about a day at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x1)
- A narrative has a beginning, a middle and an end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x2)
- The poem is a narrative about a brave knight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x3)
- Her narrative of the trip made us laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x4)
- This book has a first-person narrative using "I". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x5)
- The class read the narrative aloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x6)
- All this suggests that this is a very early and common form of narrative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb: narrate; person: narrator. Said "NA-ruh-tiv". Narrative writing (stories) differs from non-fiction like reports and instructions.

### Trees and pragmatics

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