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    Thomas Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 in Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children and his mother was a school teacher who greatly influenced him. (1) Edison invented many things including the phonograph, the first practical incandescent light bulb, and motion picture cameras. (2) He received over 1,000 patents in his lifetime and was driven to perfect the light bulb. (3) Edison died in 1931 at age 84 in his New Jersey home, highly respected for his many inventions that helped bring new technologies to the masses.

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    Thomas Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 in Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children and his mother was a school teacher who greatly influenced him. (1) Edison invented many things including the phonograph, the first practical incandescent light bulb, and motion picture cameras. (2) He received over 1,000 patents in his lifetime and was driven to perfect the light bulb. (3) Edison died in 1931 at age 84 in his New Jersey home, highly respected for his many inventions that helped bring new technologies to the masses.

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    Thomas Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 in Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children and his mother was a school teacher who greatly influenced him. (1) Edison invented many things including the phonograph, the first practical incandescent light bulb, and motion picture cameras. (2) He received over 1,000 patents in his lifetime and was driven to perfect the light bulb. (3) Edison died in 1931 at age 84 in his New Jersey home, highly respected for his many inventions that helped bring new technologies to the masses.

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    BIOGRAPHY TEXT

    Definition : Biography text is a detailed description or account of a person’s life and written by
    someone else, it is nonfiction text.
    Function of Biography:
     To know a person’s story about his/her life outside of any accomplishments this person
    may be known for.
     To give much information easily and educate the readers.
    Characteristics of Biography:
     Biography is not written by subject and always written in the third person.
     Based on research.
     Describes the person’s surroundings (where, when and how the person lived).
     Use vivid language to narrate events.
    Generic Structure:
    1. Orientation (Introduction)
    It is the opening paragraph, gives the readers the background information of the person.
    2. Events
    In events, should be in chronological order.
    3. Re-Orientation (Closing)
    It consists of a conclusion or comment or the writer. Tell about the achievement or the
    contribution of the person.
    Grammar and Language Features
     Simple Past Tense
     Temporal Sequence and Temporal Conjunction.
    Temporal Sequence (urutan waktu)
    Temporal Conjunction (konjungsi temporal).
    Contoh:
    Styles’ parents divorced when he was seven and his mother later was remarried to Robin
    Twist; he died in 2017.
    Contoh Biography Text
    Thomas Alva Edison
    Inventor Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. Thomas Edison
    was the youngest of seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. His father was an exiled
    political activist from Canada, while his mother was an accomplished school teacher and a major
    influence in Thomas’ early life.
    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, his inventions included the telegraph,
    the universal stock ticker, the phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent electric
    light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and the Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).
    During his lifetime, Edison received 1,093 U.S. patents and filed an additional 500 to 600
    that were unsuccessful or abandoned. He executed his first patent for his Electrographic Vote-
    Recorder on October 13, 1868, at the age of 21. His last patent was for an apparatus for holding
    objects during the electroplating process.
    While Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the first light bulb, he came up with the
    technology that helped bring it to the masses. Edison was driven to perfect a commercially
    practical, efficient incandescent light bulb following English inventor Humphry Davy’s
    invention of the first early electric arc lamp in the early 1800s.
    Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home,
    “Glenmont,” in West Orange, New Jersey. He was 84 years old. By the time he died he was one
    of the most well-known and respected Americans in the world.Many communities and
    corporations throughout the world dimmed their lights or briefly turned off their electrical power
    to commemorate his passing.

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