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In writing recount text, you need to pay attention to several language
features of recount text. They are simple past tense, adverb of time, and
adverb of sequence, conjunction, and chronological connectors, using
personal participant and using linking verbs.

1. Using Simple Past Tense
Why simple past tense? Recount REMEMBER!

text uses the Simple Past Tense because
the events that are being told are events Recount text uses Simple
that occurred in the past, so we must use Past Tense because the

a tense that functions to express events events being told are events
that occurred in the past, namely the that happened in the past
Simple Past Tense.

Image 2. Simple Past Tense

2. Using Adverb of Time and Using Adverb of Sequences
In writing Recount Text, also use various adverbs, such as adverbs of

time and adverbs of sequence. The adverb of time has a function to tell

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