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Descriptive text is text that aims to explain, describe, or

describe something. This something in shape can be anything,
be it animals, objects, locations, and so on. Usually, descriptive
text is characterized by the use of easy tense and focus on one
specific object. The object is then discussed again in more
detail in the descriptive text.

In short, descriptive text is:

1) Descriptive text provides information about how something or someone
looks, this text uses words to describe something or someone like what.
2) Descriptive text also provides facts about the state of the person or object
according to the context

This text aims to explain to the reader
about something in detail.
Thus, one of the functions of the social

function of descriptive text is to describe
or explain the particular person, or object

Generic Structure of

Descriptive Text

1. Identification: an overview of a topic.

2. Description: an explanation contains specific features that
the described object, place, animal, or particular person .
This descriptive text structure aims to describe what will be

discussed in the paragraph.

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