recount text

recont text is is a text that is used to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

In recount text there are 3 generic structure, those are :

• Generic structure
  It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happened
• Events
  A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence
• Re-orientationrestates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writer on the incident

 

The significant Lexicogrammatical features :

• Use simple past tense
• Use temporal conjuctions (when, after, before, next, later, then)
• Use personal pronoun (I, We)