CHAPTER IX

Factual Report Text

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Factual Report Grammar

Text Focus

Cultural
Awareness
 Report Text

• A report text is a text to describe the

way things are such as a man-made
thing, animals, and plants
• We can start a report text by
introducing the topic an then giving
identification
• Simple present is mostly used in a
report text:

• Water covers most parts of the Earth

• This animal has a sharp horn
• Some of the planets have extreme
temperature
• Some of the animals move in a herd
 Report Text
• The passage of report text has main
idea
• Main idea is what the passage is mostly
about
• Details are pieces of information that
tell about the main idea
Linking verbs, relating verbs, and behavioral
verbs
• These verbs belong to linking verbs: is,
are, have, has, get, look, resemble, belong,
appear
• Relating verbs (relating the subject and
the rest of the sentence): ….is divided into
three parts….., ….is used for…..
• Behavioral verbs (physiological and
psychological behavior), for example:
swing, move, run, etc
Noun

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. 

 
Nouns can be in the subjective, possessive, and objective case
 
• The giraffe is tall. [subjective]
• It has a long tail [objective].
• The girl's car is green. [possessive]
 
 
A noun phrase, frequently a noun accompanied by modifiers, is a group
of related words acting as a noun: the long, extremely skinny leg.

There is a separate section on word combinations that become

 compounds nouns — such as, half-moon, and stick-in-the-mud.
Adjectives
• Adjectives are words that describe or
modify another person or thing in the
sentence
• To describe a noun fully, you might need
to use two or more adjectives.
Example:
• The gray skin becomes darker when they
gets old
• The magnificent-colorful beauty remains
for about three months
 Cultural Awareness
• The main idea is the most important
idea in the passage, or piece of writing.
• Every passage has a main idea
• Each paragraph of the passage also has
a main idea
• Details are pieces of information that
tell about the main idea, details explain
the main idea