Ima's house is described. Descriptive text identifies, describes features of a place, person, or thing in order of importance including parts, physical appearance, qualities, degree of beauty, excellence, value, worth, and characteristics. Descriptive text generally uses simple present tense, passive sentences, verbs like "be" and "have" to identify qualities and features, action verbs related to the topic, and adjectives for describing qualities.
4. What is descriptive text ?
The texts which are used to describe
about a particular place, person or
thing.
5. Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
Identification
=> Identifies the phenomenon to be described
Description of Features
=> Describes features in order of importance
Parts/ things, it is about physical appearance
Qualities, it can be the degree of beauty,
excellence, value or worth
Characteristic, it can be prominent aspects that
are unique
6. Generic Features of Descriptive
1. Descriptive texts usually use Simple Present Tense
2. Frequent use of Passive sentences.
3. Use of be (is, am, are, was, were) for the
identification and showing qualities
4. Use of verb Have (have, has, had) in order to give
detail description of the objects features.
5. Use of action verbs related to the topic, especially
when describing behaviours or personalities (for
persons)
6. Use of adjectives in describing especially the
qualities.