: Re: Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? I am writing a children's story in first person, present tense. Aside from the quotes from characters,

This page seems to suggest that books that teach contractions target children between the ages of 4-8, so it would depend on what age children you're targeting, it could be that the average 4 year old might not understand contractions however I would very surprised if an average 8 year old didn't understand them. Otherwise, they're proper grammar so if you expect your target audience to understand them, by all means use them.

I would add that, as someone has already mentioned, a first person narration should be written in a similar way to the narrator's natural way of speaking.

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: I think if you indicated somewhere (preface, end notes, first footnote) that the translations are all yours, you could either write the Arabic and then your translation, or write it in English

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