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    This document provides information about recount texts, including their purpose and structure. It also discusses simple past tense, time connectives, conjunctions, capitalization, and punctuation. A recount text describes past events in chronological order, with an orientation, events section, and possible re-orientation. It establishes a timeline for readers. Grammar examples show forming simple past sentences and using time signals, conjunctions, and punctuation correctly.

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    Chapter 8

    Past Echoes of the Nations


    CHAPTER 8
    Past Echoes of the Nations
    Recount Text

    Grammar

    Simple Past Time


    Conjunctions Capitalization Punctuation
    Tense Connectives
    Recount Text

    • A recount is a text that retells past events, usually in a


    chronological order.
    • The purpose of a recount text is to describe what
    occurred and when.
    • A historical recount informs its audience about
    historical events.
    Recount Text
    The social function of a historical recount text is to establish a
    timeline for a historical event.
    A historical recount text consists of:
    • Orientation: involves the background of the event
    (describes the people involved, settings, and cause of
    event).
    • Events: records the events chronologically.
    • Re-orientation: includes the feelings and the thoughts of the
    writer about the event.
    Grammar In Action
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE
    a. We use the simple past tense to talk about actions or situations that
    happened in the past.
    b. The verbs used in the simple past tense are regular verbs and
    irregular verbs.

    Regular Verbs (Verb2) Irregular Verbs (Verb2)


    washed knew
    invented went
    helped gave
    Grammar In Action
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE
    c. The patterns:

    Statement Subject + Verb 2 + Object

    Negative statement Subject + didn’t + Verb 1 + Object

    Interrogative Did + Subject + Verb 1 + Object + ?


    Grammar In Action
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    d. Time signals for the simple past tense:


    • yesterday
    • last night, last week, last year
    • two weeks ago, three night ago, five years ago
    • in 1987, 1945, etc.
    Grammar In Action
    TIME CONNECTIVES
    Time connectives can be used to show chronological order. One of the
    features of a recount text is the use of words that show the order of
    events. Here are some of the words:

    At first next then


    when now soon after
    at this point lastly at this time
    at this moment before that after a while
    afterwards following that meanwhile
    CONJUNCTIONS
    You can use conjunctions to link words, phrases, and clauses as in the
    following examples:
    • I ate pizza and pasta
    • Call the teacher when the students are ready for the test.
    Conjunctions help to show:

    Time Cause Opposition Choice Addition Effect


    when because but and or so
    as
    although
    CAPITALIZATION

    Capital letters are used:


    • At the beginning of a sentence
    E.g. Games can be tools for learning about
    computers.
    • For names of people, place, languages, organizations,
    terms, trade names, etc.
    CAPITALIZATION
    People Title of Individuals Ethnic Groups,
    National Groups, and
    Language
    • Sally Ride • Dr Henry Ramirez • Native Americans
    • Jesse Jackson • Queen Elizabeth II • Mexicans
    Organizations, Monuments, Bridges, and Trade Names
    Institutions, Political Buildings
    Parties, Firms
    • Food and Drug • Eiffel Tower • Chevrolet
    Administration • World Trade Center • Kleenex
    • Bank of America • Coca Cola
    CAPITALIZATION
    Documents, Awards, Laws Geographical Terms Planets and
    Heavenly Bodies
    • Sally Ride • Dr Henry Ramirez • Native Americans
    • Jesse Jackson • Queen Elizabeth II • Mexicans
    Compass Points Name of Transportation Historical Events
    • The North • Garuda Indonesia Airways • Labor Day
    • The West Coast • Senopati Nusantara • Middle Ages
    Steamship
    Title of Works Religious Terms School Courses
    • The Adventure of the • Christianity • Spanish
    Odyssey • Koran • The Renaissance
    • The Gift of Maggie
    PUNCTUATION
    COMMAS
    Together with the full-stop, it is the most commonly used puntuation mark.
    Basically it separates parts of the sentence.
    E.g. If you do not understand, please tell me.
    FULL-STOP (Period)
    It is used to end a sentence. The next sentence begins with a capital letter.
    APOSTROPHE
    It is most frequently used to indicate genitive (possessive) singular and
    plural.
    E.g. the student’s books
    PUNCTUATION
    QUESTION MARK
    It is used after a direct question.
    E.g. What time is it?
    QUOTATION MARKS
    They enclose the actual words of direct speech.
    E.g. He said, “Why did you do that?”
    EXCLAMATION MARK
    It is not often used. It is usually used after exclamations and sometimes
    later after short commands.
    E.g. Oh dear!, Get out!

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