c. Grammatical Features of Descriptive Text
The descriptive text has grammatical features that have function to improve student’s knowledge, they are:
1. Focus on specific participants.
2. Use of attributive and identifying process.
Use of attributive is the use of noun and pronoun e.g. House It. Identifying process is used to assign the general phenomenon e.g. Indonesia is a maritim
country in Asia. 3.
Frequent use of ephitets and classifiers in nominal groups is ephitet use and functional grammar.
4. Use of simple present tense.
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The example of Descriptive Text is as follow:
Table 2 The example of Descriptive Text
MARK ZUCKEBERG Identification
Mark Zuckeberg is one of the phenomena of the world today. Mark followed the way of his seniors like Steve Jobs
and Bill Gates to drop out from the University and built a technology-based business empire. He is known as one of
the founders of social networking site, Facebook. He is also the CEO of the company he had built in 2004.
Description
Mark was born as a smart kid in literature and in the field of technology. Evidently, he was able to master the four
languages and had a hobby to think the software since he was teenager.
His intelligence made Harvard became the primary
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choice in terms of the University. He went on to the place to take computer science and sociology as the major. In the
second year, Mark began to show his work when created a program or application named Facemash. This is an amusing
application that made the students at Harvard could give their votes to the other student photos.
Facemash then closed in just a few days after launching because Mark did sabotage the students’
photographs data from Harvard’s official website and it made Harvard college blocked the site. However, he was not
deterred because of that incidents, he even continued to design Facebook, which used the Facemash template. It was
originally a social networking service that was intended for students at Harvard. First launched in 2004 and in just four
months, it had been used by 30 campuses. Then, in late 2004, Facebook users reached one million people.
The fast growth of Facebook made Mark did not want to go back and chose to drop out. He then focused on
developing its business and now, Facebook currently has more than 500 million users. Last, since 2010, Mark has
been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the entire world. His life story has been published in a movie
titled, The Social Network.
Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that descriptive text is a kind of text that to describe and reveal a particular person, place, animal or thing to give
information in details to the reader whose generic structure consists of identification and description and it has grammatical features that must be
mastered by the students in descriptive text writing.
7. Concept of Descriptive Text Writing Ability
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