Examples Help! What is the definition of a Descriptive Paragraph?
How do you define this type of paragraph? What is the definition of Descriptive Paragraphs? The definition of a descriptive paragraph is as follows:
English Grammar Definition of a Descriptive Paragraph
Definition: A paragraph may be defined as a group of sentences that are closely related in thought and which serve one common purpose.
Descriptive paragraphs are often used to describe: What a person looks like and acts like What a place looks like What an object looks like
Definition of a Descriptive Paragraphs
Examples Help! Descriptive Paragraphs
Good descriptive paragraphs provide the reader with an accurate mental picture of the subject of the paragraph whether it is a person, a place or an object.
Examples Help - Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a descriptive paragraph becomes easier with practice. Write an example of this type of paragraph, describing a subject that you know very well - yourself! Use the following hints and guidelines to help you with writing a paragraph about yourself.
First Sentence of a paragraph - Introduce yourself - make it interesting by including a nickname or a family name
Middle Sentences - These provide information about yourself with supporting details, facts and information
Age, star sign, personality
Size, color and shape
Styles and colors of clothes - why you like them
Pastimes - music, movies, hobbies etc.
Final sentence - The last sentence should enforce the main idea of the paragraph - who you are!
Examples Help - Descriptive Paragraph Example An excellent Descriptive Paragraph Example follows, from a short story called A Christmas Tree written by Charles Dickens:
"I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton)"...
This choice of the Dickens paragraph example was chosen as an interesting description of an object.
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