This document provides an overview of descriptive text and its key components. Descriptive text uses details to describe and explain people, objects, places, or animals. It identifies a topic and then describes its characteristics and parts. The summary includes key linguistic elements like nouns, adjectives, verbs, and noun phrases that are commonly used. An example of descriptive text is then provided, describing a Sumatran tiger's appearance and behaviors in the present tense using these parts of speech.