News Item

Definition
News item is factual text which informs the readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important. Social function of news item is to informs readers, listeners, or viewers about event of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

Generic Structure of News Item:

• Newsworthy event: recount the event in summary form
• Background event: elaborate what happened, to whom, in what, circumstances.
• Sources: comments by participants in witnesses to and authorities expert on the event.

Significant Grammar Features:

• Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
• Generally using simple past tense
• Use of material priocesses to retell the event
• Using action verbs
• Using saying verbs
• Focus circumstances
• Use of projecting verbal procccess in sources stages

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

1. It is unusual to find complex forms, generally the simple present form is used
2. The present progressive tense is used,usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out
3. To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive
4. Headlines are not always complete sentences
5. The passive voice i sused without the appropriate form of "be"