A picture description should always provide an overall understanding about the picture in hand. Your sentences should focus on the important elements of the picture. Thereby you can make your description more meaningful and complete.
You can follow some easy steps to achieve this purpose. You can also make use of your grammar knowledge to be tactful in constructing a lengthy sentence as required by the examiner. For example, you can use Adjectives and Adverbs to further describe the visual information in the picture. Let’s learn the techniques of writing a meaningful picture description.
You can follow the following basic sentence patterns.
This is a picture of a ...........
It is a picture of a ...........
There is a ........... (Singular)
There are ........... (Plural)
The tense used here is Simple Present Tense.
Verbs used :-
“is” – for singular
“are” – for plural
She has a ........... (Singular)
They have ........... (Plural)
The tense used here is Simple Present Tense.
Verbs used :-
“has” – for singular
“have” – for plural
She is reading ...........
They are reading...........
The tense used here is Simple Present Tense.
The tense used here is Present Continuous Tense.
Verbs used :- (helping verb + Present Participle)
“is reading” – for singular
“are reading” – for plural
The children are having a nice time.
The tense used here is Present Continuous Tense.
Verbs used :- (helping verb + Present Participle)
When describing the picture, we can add more adjectives and adverbs to be more descriptive. It helps create longer sentences.
With a suitable adjective “children’s ”:- This is a picture of a children’s park.
With a suitable adverb “comfortably”:- A man and a woman are sitting comfortably on a bench.
With a suitable adjective “small”:- A small boy is playing on a swing.
With a suitable adverb “happily”:- A small boy is playing happily on a swing.
Let’s try to write a small description of this picture.
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