Describing People

Descriptive text is a text that explains about whether a person or an object is like, whether its form, its properties, its amount and others.

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The purpose of the descriptive text is clear, that is to describe, represent or reveal a person or an object, either abstract or concrete.

what is descriptive text?

When writing descriptive text, there are some generic structures (actually not mandatory) for our writing to be true. The arrangement is:

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• Identification: contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be described.

• Description: contains a description of something such as animal, things, place or person by describing its features, forms, colors, or anything related to what the writer describe.

• Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one). for example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim

• The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara, etc.​

• ​The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because it tells the fact of the object described.

• ​Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc….

CONCLUSION

Descriptive text is a text that contains information about something or someone. By this kind of text, we can describe people, place, things and animals. This text has structure (identification and description) and language features to be pay attention while making this text.

Nama : Anggi Afia Ningsih

Instansi : Universitas Pakuan Bogor​