Use of Simple Present Tense : My Lovely File Holder

Sample 4

 

My Lovely File Holder

I have a file holder that so important to me. It is one of my various kinds of belongings. I have had it since I was in a high school at 3rd grade. It is very useful for me to put so many important files.

From the first time I saw my file holder, in fact, I didn’t like it much. It colored nothing but transparent. I use it to keep my high school printed tasks and my drawing papers as I used to have so many drawing tasks from my art teacher. As I hate the color of my file holder, I try to make it more exciting to me.

I put so many stickers on its foreground. It looks messy but so exciting. The stickers are prints outs of the member of my lovely group band “Arctic Monkeys” It brings excitement for me as I see my file folder at any places. Thant’s why I always bring it to school until I’m in the university.

I love my file holder so much. It shows and indicates that it is my belonging. Nobody has it like I have. All families are also notice it is mine. And what’s so important that my families dislike to peep anything inside my file holder, so that I could always keep anything secretly in it being worry. It keeps my privacy.

It is really one in a million I will always keep it and bring it in my daily.

The Generic Structure

1. Introduction

I have a file holder that so important to me. It is one of my various kinds of belongings. I have had it since I was in a high school at 3rd grade. It is very useful for me to put so many important files. (First paragraph)

In the first paragraph, the writer introduces her file holder as the object which is going to be described in paragraph form. She also states one detail of the file holder about the usefulness of it to put many important files. Actually, this can be put in the body paragraph to be able to be developed more. In other words, the idea of the paragraph is not developed correctly.

Body

The body of this text contains of two parts which are stated in the second and the third paragraph. 

From the first time I saw my file holder, in fact, I didn’t like it much. It colored nothing but transparant. I use it to keep my high school printed tasks and my drawing papers as I used to have so many drawing tasks from my art teacher. As I hate the color of my file holder, I try to make it more exciting to me. (Second paragraph)

In the second paragraph, the writer does not give specific descriptions of her file holder, but she makes such a little story about her feeling about how it looked like at the first time she saw it. She also explains the function of it as seen on the underlined sentences and ends the paragraph with exposing her intention to make the file holder to be more exciting thing for her. It does not focus on an idea.

I put so many stickers on its foreground. It looks messy but so exciting. The stickers are prints outs of the member of my lovely group band “Arctic Monkeys” It brings excitement for me as I see my file folder at any places. That’s why I always bring it to school until I’m in the university. (Third paragraph)

In the third paragraph, the writer describes the appearance of the file holder after she changes it. She also describes her feeling of seeing the file holder at any places which is not the suitable supporting idea related to the main idea about the appearance itself.

Actually, the second and the third paragraph should be put into a paragraph because it has the same idea; how to make the object interesting.

Conclusion

I love my file holder so much. It shows and indicates that it is my belonging. Nobody has it like I have. All families are also notice it is mine. And what’s so important that my families dislike to peep anything inside my file holder, so that I could always keep anything secretly in it being worry. It keeps my privacy.

(Fourth paragraph)

The conclusion of this text contains of two parts which are stated in the fourth and the fifth paragraph.

It is really one in a million I will always keep it and bring it in my daily. (Fifth paragraph)

       From these two paragraphs, the writer concludes the composition by adding some interesting ideas related to the object described. However, it is useless to separate it into two paragraphs. They can be put into one paragraph as a conclusion.

Language Features

a.   The Use ofSimple Present Tense

The sentence construction of this descriptive composition uses specific tense which is simple present tense. Here are the examples:

-          I have a file holder that so important to me.

-          It is one of my various kinds of belongings.

-          It keeps my privacy.

      Nevertheless, the writer uses past tense in the introduction and some parts of the body of the descriptive composition.

I have a file holder that so important to me. It is one of my various kinds of belongings. I have had it since I was in a high school at 3rd grade. It is very useful for me to put so many important files. (First paragraph)

 

From the first time I saw my file holder, in fact, I didn’t like it much. It colored nothing but transparant. I use it to keep my high school printed tasks and my drawing papers as I used to have so many drawing tasks from my art teacher. As I hate the color of my file holder, I try to make it more exciting to me. (Second paragraph)

b. Word choice of sensory words and figurative language

The writer only described the file holder with an adjective, messy. Yet, there are not specific sensory words and figurative language that can help readers to get clear images about what the writer means with the word messy.