Descriptive text describes the features of someone, something, or a place. It uses the present tense and adjectives to reveal characteristics. The purpose is to describe and reveal qualities of an object or specific place. As an example, the document summarizes Macquarie University as a large university in Australia located in Sydney with 135 hectares of landscaped campus featuring a creek zone, amphitheater, and artificial lake surrounded by native plants and trees.

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2. What is Descriptive Text ?
Descriptive text is a text that describes the
features of someone, something, or a
certain place.

3.  The generic structures :
- Identification : identifies/introduction
of people to be describe
- Description : describe the
characteristic of people

4. The language features :
Descriptive Text using the Present Tense, for
example: go, eat, drink etc.
Descriptive Text using various adjectives that is a
portrait, and classify, for example: two strong legs,
sharp white fangs, etc.

5. √ Descriptive text uses the verb think, like believe,
think, and feel to reveal the author's personal views
about the subject, for example: I think she is the
greatest woman in the world.

6. The Purpose
The purpose of Descriptive Text :
The purpose of the Descriptive Text is to describe and
reveal the characteristics of the object, or a specific
place.

7. Example :
MacQuarie University
Macquarie University is one of the largest
universities in Australia. This year, in 2004, it
celebrates its 40th anniversary.
The university is located at the North Ryde
Greenbelt, Sydney, where the New South Wales
government sets aside 135 hectares for the
institution. In 1964, Macquarie area was a rural
retreat on the city fringe, but today the campus
and its surroundings have evolved beyond
recognition. The North Ryde District has grown
into a district of intensive occupation anchored by
a vibrant and growing university.

8.  Blessed with a fortunate location and room to
breathe, Macquarie can be proud of that careful
planning that retains and enrich the university’s
most attractive natural features. A pleasing
balance between buildings and plating is evident
across the campus. This emphasis on the
importance of landscape has created images of
Macquarie as a place that members of the
university are most likely to pleasurably recollect.
One of the highlights of the landscape is the Mars
Creek zone. It comprises landscaped creek sides
and valley floor, a grass amphitheatre, and
artificial lake surrounded by rocks and pebbles,
native plants and eucalypts.

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