Descriptive Text

Rafa Aryati
 1 Social Function

Descriptive Text
2 Generic Structure

3 Language Feature
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Social Function
 Social Function

To describe person, thing, or place in specific.

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To describe a particular person, thing, or place.
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Generic Structure
Generic structure

• Identification : ( countains about the introduction of a person, place,

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animal, or object will be describe )

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• Description : ( countains a description of something such as
animal, thing, place, or person by describing its feature, forms,
colour, or anything related to what the writer describe. )
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Language feature
Language feature

   
• Specific Participant : has a certain object is • The use of simple present tense : The
not common and unique (only one). sentence pattern used is simple present
Example : Bandengan beach, my house, etc.. because it tells the fact of the object
described.

• The use of the adjectva (an adjective) to

clarify the noun. Example : A beautiful • Action Verb : Verbs that show an activity.
beach, A handsome man. Example : run, walk, sleep, etc...
Example of descriptive text

SMA N 9 PEKANBARU

SMA N 9 PEKANBARU is one of the senior highschools in

Pekanbaru. The exact location of this school is on Semeru
street, Rintis, Lima Puluh district, Pekanbaru city. This school
has two floors and has green paint. This School also has a
clean environment. In this school there is a field in the middle
of which there are two big trees. The field is used as a place
for flag ceremonies, sports, and so on.
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