A narrative is a recount of past experiences or shared experiences of the past. In everyday life, we often need to give an account or a report of an event or something that happened in the past, when we do this, we are involved in narration. Note that you make use of the past tense form of verbs you are reporting an event that has happened. You also make use of the simple and the compound sentence. E.g. I woke up as early as 4:00 am. I completed my housework by 5:00 am and left for school at 7:00 am. The underlined words – work, completed, text is in the past tense.
EVALUATION: From your NOSEC – Clip over to page 32 – read the following composition and choose the best words from the boxes to fill up the gaps.
ASSIGNMENT:
Write an essay on the most memorable day of my life. (200 words).
See also:
The Present Continuous Tense
The contrast of Pure Vowel /Ɔ/
Difference Between Oral and Written Poetry
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