Text types

Question 1

Which text types are there?

Answer 1

Descriptive, Instructive, Argumentative, Narrative, Expository

Question 2

What are some features of narrative texts?

Answer 2

Temporal development
Initiators and terminators
Reporting verbs with direct / reported speech
Action and change verbs
Plots / events ordered chronologically or by causation

Question 3

What are some features of descriptive texts?

Answer 3

Concrete nouns
physical adjectives
copular and non-change verbs
adverbials of place and direction
Listing structures
ALWAYS about something in the real world (room, building, etc.)

Question 4

What are some features of expository texts?

Answer 4

Change or non-change verbs in present tense
probable mode common
connective adverbials
explanation through analysis or synthesis
listing structures

Question 5

What are some features of argumentative texts?

Answer 5

modal verbs and negation
abstract lexis common
quality-attributing adjectives
persuasive features and style
adverbials of condition, concession, and reason

Question 6

What are some features of instructive texts?

Answer 6

explicit imperatives
action-suggesting/demanding predicators
verbs of intention
implied or explicit second person
adverbials of condition