Factual Text 2

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

The second of factual text will discuss how to furnish the text. It is important because we need to make it clear and correct so that it is easy to understand.   

The question is how to furnish the text?

1. We need to make sure that our paragraph is full of facts from our observation, not assumption. But before that maybe we need to know what is fact and what is assumption.

Fact is something that is really exist or really appear. These are some examples of facts: "the sun rises from the east, the wind blows, cats eat fish, whales live in the sea, and flowers bloom". Those facts are exist and we can see, hear, or feel them.     

What about assumption? Assumption is something that is in our mind but not based on something that we see, feel, or hear, and not (yet) already something that comes from scientific action.  

For example: "the sky is beautiful (it is beautiful for you, but not for me), the house is not comfortable (for me but may be it is for you), the lady is kind (for their family but not for me), my grandpa is humble (for me but not for strangers)."

In other word, fact is something objective, and assumption is something subjective.   

Another example, we like to write about this thing

So we say: "This is red car toy. It has 4 wheels and 2 doors. It was made in 2013 (because written on it), and it is metal".

We may not say: "it is a cheap toy and belongs to my teacher." Why? Beause those statements are not based on our observation, they are just our assumption.   

2. We need to use correct tense.

The second furnish is using a correct tense for our text. It is important to make our text understandable. Because it is a fact, that is happened all the time, everyday, or all the years, and always be like that, (just like a general truth), then we use simple present tense.

For example:   

"Cats are animals that live in houses. They eat fish and like to sleep on the carpet in front of the door house. Sometimes they miaw when the are hungry. But they will stop when people give them milk."

Sometimes, we need to use other tense for example when we like to tell a story (as information). "The cat in my house was found in 2010 when it was suddenly appear in my backyard". For that case we use simple past tense.  

"Be far away from prejudice because most of prejudices are sin, QS Al Hujuraat, 12"