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• Communism can be a challenging ideology

As described earlier, to have more interest is very important and

therefore the use of adjectives is required except for adverbs. For example,

a description of a place such as the state University of Jakarta can also be

described using the items provided: location, transportation, facilities and

equipment provided, weather and supporting areas etc.

7. Linguistic Features

a. Relevant grammatical patterns

The grammatical patterns of certain writing genres seem to have

more specific differences and features. This happens because different

genres of writing will produce different things in terms of different

communicative purposes, readers, and contexts in terms of when it

happened, how it happened or why it happened. In general, the

general grammatical pattern of the intended description text:

1) Using present tense and present perfect tense.

2) Using verbs that describe or illustrate the condition of a

topic/theme being described.

3) Use passive sentences

4) Using attribute and process identification

The use of the present tense for descriptive text seems to be a

necessity and it becomes a kind of 'trade mark' for descriptive text. Then,

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