News Item

News item text is a factual text which inform reader or daily newspaper about events of the day which are regardee as newsworth or important.

Purpose text of news item :
To inform the reader or listener. Clear objectives news item is to inform the news to the readers or listeners. Purpose denger you read the news or not to obtain information froum sources that clearly.
The generic structure of news item :

Correspondence.
Newsworthy events :
Recount’s the event in summary form.
Background events :
Elaborate what happened,to whom,in what circumstances.

Linguistic features :
-Action verbs
-Verbal verbs
-Mental verbs.
-Temporal circumstances
-Spatial circumstances
-specific participants.

Significant Grammar Features:

± Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
± Generally using Simple Past Tense
± Use of Material Processes to retell the event
± Using Action Verbs, e.g.: were, run, go, kill, etc.
± Using Saying Verbs, e.g.: say, tell
± Focus on Circumstances
± Use of projecting Verbal Processes in Sources stages

The structure of thr text consist of three parts :
-core write news or events that are considered important (Newsworthy events)
-write the background or the cause of the event (background event)
-write a news source,usually contains about quotes from the usual resource witnesses,

or senior official associated with the event (sources)
-to distinguish the type of news item text and other text that is easy for news item has a unique feature that is preceded by a city or place. Another characteristic that is the excerpt from the resource person.





There are some rules that can help to make newspaper headlines more comprehensible.


1The passive voice is used without the appropriate form of “be”.
Example: Town ‘Contaminated’
Complete Sentence: Town is contaminated.

2.It is unusual to find complex forms, generally the simple present form is used Example: Fire Destroys over 2,511 acres of Forest in 2003-2004
Complete Sentence: Fire has destroyed over 2,511 acres of forest in 2003-2004.

3.The present progressive tense is used, usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
Example: World Heading for Energy Crisis
Complete Sentence: The world is heading for an energy crisis.

4.To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive.
Example: Queen to Visit Samoa.
Complete Sentence: The Queen is going to visit Samoa.

5.Headlines are not always complete sentences.
Example: More earthquakes in Japan.
Complete Sentence: More earthquakes happened in Japan.


Example
Text 1

SINGAPORE: A supervisor was jailed for two months for repeatedly striking his Indonesian maid on the head and back with a television remote.
Muhammad Shafiq Woon Abdullah was brought to court in Singapore because he had physically hurt the woman on several occasions between june and October 2002,the Straits time said.
The magistrate’s court heard that Shafiq,31,began striking Winati,22,about a month after she started working for him.
He hit her on the head with the TV sets remote control because he was unhappy with her work. On the occasion,he punched her on the back after accusing her of daydreaming.
S.S Dhillon,Shafiq’s lawyer,said that his client had become mad when he saw his daughter’s face covered as she was lying in bed. He said his client thought the maid had put the child in danger.