The purpose of descriptive text is to describe a particular thing, animal or person.
Generic Structure:
1. Identification
2. Description
The text below is an example of Descriptive Text.
My Bombi
Bombi is my playful pet. It is a cat. The cat is always playful. It likes playing with anything. It sometimes plays with me. It likes playing with a ball very much. It is very clever, but sometimes it is very naughty. My Bombi is not very big. It is medium. It has soft fur. Its fur is grey and white. Bombi has a long tail. Its eyes are round. It looks cute. It is always near me.
Notice the paragraph about Bombi again. It is a descriptive paragraph. It describes the writer’s pet, Bombi. The sentences at the beginning of the paragraph are printed in bold. This part is identification. We start a description with identification. In identification, we identify the phenomenon (aspect or thing) that we will describe.Following identification is description. In description, we describe parts, characteristics, and etcetera.
