News Item (pt. 2)

 

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Welcome back to my blog, so today I will explain about News Item pt. 2

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Generic Structure of News Item

Generic structure of news item text are    :

1. Newsworthy event : It recounts the event in a brief form or summary form.
2. Background event : They elaborate what happened, to whom, or in what circumstances.
3. Source : It contains about comments by participants in, witnesses to, and authorities expert on the event.

Language features of News Item Text

• Use past tenses (the simple past, the past continuous, the past perfect).
• Use action verbs (go, walk, run, eat, drive, ride, etc.)
• Use saying verbs (tell, say, shout, answer, complain, etc.)
• Use adverbs of manner (happily, joyfully, slowly, fast, etc.)
• Use adverbs of time and place (one day, after the lesson, in the classroom, through the green grass, etc.)
• Use adjective to form noun phrase (a beautiful, sunny day; a large, green field; a white, shady beach)
• Use conjunction to link sentences (and, but, so, because, for, or)
• Use time connectives (after that, meanwhile, the next morning, then, finally, next, at the end)
• Use pronoun (he, she, they, them, his, her, him, them, we, our, my)
• Use passive voice (Seven people were killed in collision... , The museum was built in...)

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