Narrates

Narrates is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb narrate. To narrate is to tell a story or recount events in a structured, sequential fashion, often with attention to setting, characters, and chronology. The act may be performed by a narrator who presents the events, explains details, or guides the audience through the narrative.

Typical usage of narrates appears in literary criticism, film analysis, journalism, and everyday speech. A subject that narrates can be a character within a story, a narrator in a work of fiction, or a person providing commentary in nonfiction media. Examples include a guide who narrates a tour, a documentary host who narrates the sequence of events, or a book in which a designated narrator relates the plot.

Narra­tion commonly involves choices about point of view, voice, and pacing. In fiction, narration can be in various modes, such as first person or third person, and the verb form narrates serves to describe the act in the present tense. Related concepts include narrator (the entity that performs narration), narration (the act or method of telling), and narrative (the broader structure or content of a story). Etymology traces to Latin narrare, meaning to tell or relate.

In sum, narrates denotes the present-tense action of recounting events, often within a broader narrative framework, and is distinguished from related verbs by its emphasis on orderly storytelling and perspective through the voice of the narrator.