Definition of News Item :
News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
Generic Structure of News Item :
- Newsworthy event : recount the event in a summary form.
- Background events : elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances.
- Source : comments by participants, in witnesses to and authorities expert on the event.
Language Feature of News Item :
- Using action verb
- Using saying verb
- Using passive sentence
- There are some rules that can help to make newspaper headlines more comprehensible.
- The passive voice is used without the appropriate form of “be”.
- It is unusual to find complex forms, generally the simple present form is used .
- The present progressive tense is used, usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
- To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive.Headlines are not always complete sentences.
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