Descriptive Text

The aim of descriptive text : to describe the characteristics of particular person, thing, or place.

Text Structure

- Identification : Identifies thing, person, place, phenomenon to be described

- Description : Gives the information of particular thing, person, or place being discussed or describes parts,   qualities, or characteristics.

 Grammatical Features :

- Who? What?

- Using lingking verb and simple present tense

- Epithet : adjective or adjective phrase

- Attributive (the)

- Use of attributive and identifying process

Example Of Descriptive Text :

Identification 

My Pets

We have three family pets : a dog, a cat, and a tortoise

Descriptions

- The Dogs name is Benjamin. He is golden lambrador. He is beautiful. He has big brown eyes and a long tail. He is very friendly dog, but he is sometimes a little stupid. Dogs are expensive to keep bubt the yare fun to play with

- Our cat is named Martha. She is quite young, but she is not a kitten. She is very pretty. She has black and white for and green eyes. She’s smart, too and very clean.

- The tortoise’s name is Rocky. He has short, fat legs a long neck, and a very hard shell. He is also very old and slow. He’s ugly and dirty, but I like him