Descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a type of text that describes a person or thing. Its goal is to memorialize and describe a certain person, place, or thing. According to Friedman (2010), descriptive details mean to grab the reader’s attention. A descriptive text is considered as the simplest and easiest writing form compared to narrative, recount, or procedure, particularly for the beginning writers.​

​A.           Description of a place

​According to Sandra states that the best wa to decribe a place it to show someone the actual place or to take a picture of it or just give the characteristic of the place. For example, the place hoem or a room, so it is important to give clearly picture of the size and arragement of the space involved. Grammar is used to explain the match between a subject and a verb. Also note that the selection describes all the verbs in the present tense and the area in the present tense.

​B.  Description of a person

​When writing a personal description, you are gathering informative details about that person and asking yourself what those details mean. There are many ways to describe a person such as face, hair color, clothing, body shape, etc. However, when describing a person, you are not required to provide individual details about a person's appearance. You can focus on one or two distinctive traits that say something about the person's character.

​1.             Function : used to describe something, someone, or place.

​The goal is to describe or reveal certain people, places or things] Therefore, it can be said that a descriptive text is a text that describes what is like describing a person or thing, all of its shape, characteristics, numbers, etc. The purpose (purpose) of the descriptive text is also clear, that is, to explain, describe or reveal a person or thing.

​2.             Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

​Descriptive text has two main parts :

a.    Identification this part identifies particular things to be described. What is the text about?

Berisi tentang identifikasi hal / seorang yang akan dideskripsikan.

b.    Description

This part describes the parts and characteristics. Berisi tentang penjelasan/penggambaran tentang hal/seseorang dengan menyebutkan beberapa sifatnya.

Ketika kita menulis descriptive text, hal yang wajib kita ketahui adalah cara kita menyampaikan deskripsi tulisan kita tersebut. Oleh karena itu pemahaman tentang adjective (kata sifat bahasa Inggris) wajib kita kuasai.

Example of Descriptive Describing about something

​1.    Pizza, noodle, sandwich and burger. They are called …

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a.       Vegetables                              c. Fruits

b.      Food                                        d. Drinks

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2.    My father is not _______ at the office right now.

a.         playing football                                   c. cooking

b.        sleeping                                   d. working