Group E

• Group members:
1) Muhammad Jaish
2) Muhammad Nasir
3) Zubair Abdul Hameed
4) Abdul Rafey
5) Ali Hassan Minhas
 Types of
paragraph
1) Descriptive paragraph
2) Narrative paragraph
3) Persuasive paragraph
4) Expository paragraph
 Descriptive
paragraph
Descriptive is defined as giving details or something that
describes. A descriptive paragraph describes a thing, a
person, or a place. Detailed information allows the reader
to form an image in his or her imagination A descriptive
paragraph is a focused and detail-rich account of a
specific topic. Paragraphs in this style often have a
concrete focus—the sound of a waterfall, the stench of a
skunk's spray—but can also convey something abstract,
such as an emotion or a memory. Some descriptive
paragraphs do both. These paragraphs help readers feel
and sense the details that the writer wants to convey
 Purpose of descriptive
paragraph
• Give the reader a visual picture of
the topic.
• How something made, feels, looks
and sounds.
• The reader can experience the
idea or event through the text.
• To provides lots of information to
readers.
Key feature of descriptive
paragraph
• It does not define it describes.
• Point a picture with words.
• Uses sensory words that appeal
to five senses: hearing, taste,
touch, smell and sight
 Sensory detail
1) Sight:
Color, shapes, sizes and patterns.
2) sound:
loud or soft; harmonious or harsh; pleasant or
unpleasant.
3) smell:
sweet or sour; pleasant or unpleasant; aromatic or
stinky.
4) taste:
sweet, better, burning, spicy, bland
5) Touch(feel or emotions):
hard, soft, smooth, rough, cold, hot,
dry, oily, sticky.
Some topics of descriptive
paragraph
• A pet
• Your favorite food
• An unusual room
• A child secret hiding place
• Dream house
• An ideal roommate
• Your old neighborhood
 How to write a
descriptive paragraph
• Format: Heading writer’s name and class
• Language: should be semiformal. Try to be
attractive and appealing
• Hints: Functional information about
incident/experience.
• Date, time, venue of incident/experience.
• Sequence of action/incident.
• Reaction of the incident.
• Uses of sensory detail.
Example of descriptive
paragraph
 Uses of descriptive
paragraph
• Give feature or
characteristics of something.
• They give impression of
something.
• Give feelings about
something.