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Spell Bee Word: narration


Basic Details

Word: Narration

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The telling of a story or an account of events. It also means the words spoken by a narrator in a film or play.

Synonyms: telling, account

How to Spell Narration

Syllables: nar - ra - tion

Tricky part: It has a double r and ends in tion. Children often drop one r and write naration.

Watch out for: naration, narrasion, narrattion

Memory tip: Narrate and narration share the rr. Write narra, then the tion ending of station.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The documentary had a calm narration about tigers in Ranthambore.

Example 2: Her narration of the trip was so lively that we felt we had gone too.

Example 3: In our English lesson we changed direct speech into indirect narration.

Fun Fact

In grammar books in India, changing direct speech to reported speech is often called a change of narration.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

narrattion

a) t
b) r
c) a
d) n

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a) t. The tion ending has just one t.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) discription
b) dialouge
c) charactar
d) narration

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d) narration. A story has a description, dialogue and characters, but here those three are misspelt.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rotanairn

a) narrator
b) narrative
c) narration
d) nation

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c) narration. There are two n's and an i but no e, so narrative and narrator drop out.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives the narration in a film?

a) the cameraman
b) the cook
c) the narrator
d) the ticket seller

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c) the narrator

2. A good narration of an event should be ____.

a) full of spelling errors
b) clear and in order
c) silent
d) very short and missing facts

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b) clear and in order

Associated Words

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