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Procedural Text

THE FUNCTION: To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps . GENERIC STRUCTURE: 1. Goal/aim/purpose                                              2. Materials (not required for all procedural texts)                                              3. Steps; e.g-> first, second, then, after that, finally etc................. SIGNIFICANT LEXICOGRAMMATICAL FEATURES: •  Focus on generalized human agents. • Use of simple present tense, often Imperative. • Use mainly of temporal conjunctions (or numbering to indicate sequence). •...