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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,
in general it is known as what is described is a matter of fact, generally
accepted fact or reality.
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