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Understanding Descriptive Text Structure

Descriptive text describes people, places, or things. It generally includes identification, description, and language features. Identification introduces what will be described. Description provides specific details about parts, qualities, and characteristics using adjectives. Language features include using the present tense, adjectives, specific participants or objects, and linking verbs. An example descriptive text describes the writer's best friend Dinda and her appearance, personality traits, and hobbies.

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Understanding Descriptive Text Structure

Descriptive text describes people, places, or things. It generally includes identification, description, and language features. Identification introduces what will be described. Description provides specific details about parts, qualities, and characteristics using adjectives. Language features include using the present tense, adjectives, specific participants or objects, and linking verbs. An example descriptive text describes the writer's best friend Dinda and her appearance, personality traits, and hobbies.

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Descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a text which describes a particular person, place or thing.

Social Functions

The social function of descriptive text is to describe a particular place, person, or a thing

Generic Structures of Descriptive Text

1. Identification
Identification is the first paragraph in descriptive text. In identification, the writer
identifies the things that will be described. However, the writer only tells about the
general information of the object that will be described.
2. Description
In description, writer should describe the specific information of the object that will be
described. Such as, part, qualities, characteristic, and etc.

Language Feature of Description Text

1. Simple present tense


In descriptive text, we use simple present tense because we describe about the facts of
object that we described.
2. Using adjective
In descriptive text, there are many adjective that we used to modify the objects or the
noun that we described such as beautiful, handsome, tall, friendly, and etc.
3. Specific participant/object, ex. My cat, my bedroom etc.
4. Linking verb, ex. Is, am, are, has/have, seem, appear, etc.

Example of Descriptive Text

My Best Friend

(Identification) I have a lot of friends in my school, but Dinda has been my best friend
since junior high school. We don’t study in the same class, but we meet at school every day
during recess and after school. I first met her at junior high school orientation and we’ve been
friends ever since.

(Description) Dinda is good-looking. She’s not too tall, with fair skin and wavy black
hair that she often puts in a ponytail. At school, she wears the uniform. Other than that, she likes
to wear jeans, casual t-shirts and sneakers. Her favorite t-shirts are those in bright colors like
pink, light green and orange. She is always cheerful. She is also very friendly and likes to make
friends with anyone. Like many other girls, she is also talkative. She likes to share her thoughts
and feelings to her friends. I think that’s why many friends enjoy her company. However, she
can be a bit childish sometimes. For example, when she doesn’t get what she wants, she acts like
a child and stamps her feet.

Dinda loves drawing, especially the manga characters. She always has a sketchbook with
her everywhere she goes. She would spend some time to draw the manga characters from her
imagination. Her sketches are amazingly great. I’m really glad to have a best friend like Dinda.

Language Features:

1. Simple present tense


- I have a lot of friends in my school
- We don’t study in the same class
- We meet at school every day
- Dinda is good-looking
- She wears the uniform
- Dinda loves drawing
2. Adjective
- Good-looking, tall, cheerful, talkative, childish

3. Specific participant/object
My best friend “Dinda”
4. Linking Verb
- Have, has, is, are, am

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