Descriptive text

Descriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing or a place is like. It tends to specify the described object  

Generic structure

Identification

Identifies phenomenon to be desribed

  Description

Desribes parts, qualities, characteristics, etc.

Example Of Generic Structure:

My Cat Gregory

    Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with pride and grace, performing a dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. His pride, however, does not extend to his appearance, for he spends most of his time indoors watching television and growing fat.

    He enjoys TV commercials, especially those for Meow Mix and 9 Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials has led him to reject generic brands of cat food in favor of only the most expensive brands. Gregory is as finicky about visitors as he is about what he eats, befriending some and repelling others. He may snuggle up against your ankle, begging to be petted, or he may imitate a skunk and stain your favorite trousers. Gregory does not do this to establish his territory, as many cat experts think, but to humiliate me because he is jealous of my friends.

language features:

-Verb

-Tense

Definition verb:

 Action verbs are verbs that show the performance of an action, something that a person, animal, force of nature, or thing can do. They are dynamic verbs that show something happening.

Kinds of Verb :

There are two kinds of action verbs. They are:

1.Regular action verbs

      Verbs that follow the pattern of adding -ed for the past

   simple (V1) and past participle (V3).

      e.g. talk à talked

      Or adding -d if the verbs end in –e

      e.g. smoke à smoked.

2.Irregular action verbs

      Verbs that do not follow the usual rules for verb

 forms for the past simple (V1) and past participle (V3).

       e.g. sleep à slept à slept

              draw à drew à drawn

-Tense 

simple present tense is divided into 3:

-Usage 

There are 4 (four) usage of Simple Present Tense. They are:

1.Explaining repeated  actions

2.Explaining facts or generalizations

3.Explaining scheduled events in the near future

4.Explaining now actions (non continuous verbs)

-Nominal

 Nominal present tense is the simple present tense where the

    sentences use to be (are, am, is).

 See the following diagram of to be:

     are        you  is  he

       we  she

       they  it

       plural nouns  singular nouns

     am       I

 Formula:

     ( + ) S + are/am/is + Noun/Adjective

              e.g. My father is a doctor

     (  - ) S + are/am/is + not + Noun/Adjective

              e.g. My father is not a doctor

     (  ? ) Are/Am/Is + S + Noun/Adjective?

              e.g. Is my father a doctor?

-Verbal

Verbal present tense is the simple present tense where the sentences

     use verbs.

  In positive sentence, the verbs for subject he, she, it, and singular

    nouns should be added by s/es

  In negative and interrogative sentences, it uses do/does as the

     auxiliary. Do is used by I, you, we, they, and plural nouns. Does is

     used by he, she, it, and singular nouns.

   Formula:

     ( + ) S + V1 + s/es

              e.g. They play football

      My sister sings a song

     (  - ) S + do/does + not + V1

              e.g. They don’t play football

      My sister doesn’t sing a song

     (  ? ) Do/Does + S + V1

              e.g. Do they play football?

     Does my sister sing a song?