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### Description
When people tell a story, they normally tell the events in the order that they happened. This sequence of events makes up the storyline. The storyline is full of action verbs that move the story along in time. But sometimes a writer may take a break from the storyline and give some information to help his listeners understand the story better. This type of information is called **background information.** The background information might be about things that happened before the events he has already told about, or it might explain something in the story, or it might be about something that would happen much later in the story.
When people tell a story, they normally tell the events in the order that they happened. This sequence of events makes up the storyline. The storyline is full of action verbs that move the story along in time. But sometimes a writer may take a break from the storyline and give some information to help his listeners understand the story better. This type of information is called **background information**. The background information might be about things that happened before the events he has already told about, or it might explain something in the story, or it might be about something that would happen much later in the story.
**Example** - The underlined sentences in the story below are all background information.
Peter and John went on a hunting trip because <u>their village was going to have a feast the next day</u>. <u>Peter was the best hunter in the village.</u> <u>He once killed three wild pigs in one day!</u> They walked for hours through low bushes until they heard a wild pig. The pig ran, but they managed to shoot the pig and kill it. Then they tied up its legs with some rope <u>they had brought with them</u>, and carried it home on a pole. When they brought it to the village, Peter’s cousin saw the pig and realized that <u>it was his own pig</u>. <u>Peter had mistakenly killed his cousin’s pig</u>.
Background information often tells about something that had happened earlier or something that would happen much later. Examples of these are: “their village was going to have a feast the next day”; “He once killed three wild pigs in one day”; “that they had brought with them”; and “Peter had mistakenly killed his cousins’ pig".
Background information often tells about something that had happened earlier or something that would happen much later. Examples of these are: “their village was going to have a feast the next day;” “He once killed three wild pigs in one day;” “that they had brought with them;” and “Peter had mistakenly killed his cousins’ pig."
Often background information uses “be” verbs like “was” and “were”, rather than action verbs. Examples of these are “Peter <u>was</u> the best hunter in the village” and “it <u>was</u> his own pig.”
Background information can also be marked with words that tell the reader that this information is not part of the event line of the story. In this story, some of these words are “because”, “once”, and “had”.
Background information can also be marked with words that tell the reader that this information is not part of the event line of the story. In this story, some of these words are “because,” “once,” and “had.”
#### A writer may use background information