News Item

News item is to inform readers, listeners, or viewers about event of the day which are considered news worthy or important.

Functional of News Item:
Social function of news item is to inform readers,listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.
The structure of the text consists of three parts :
1. Newsworthy event : recounts the events in summary form.
2. Background events : elaborate what happened, to whom, and in what circumstances
3. Source : comments by participants in whitnesses to, and authorities expert on the event.

Significant Gammar Features :
• Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline.
• Generally using simple present tense
• Use of material processer totell the event
• Focus on circumtanses
- Using action verbs, e,g ; were, run, go, kill
- Using saying verbs, e, g ; say, tell
- Use of projecting verbal processes in sources stages

There are some rules thst can help to make newspaper headlines more comprehensible.
1. The passive voice is used without the appropriate form of “be”.
2. It is unusual to find complex forms,generally the simple present form is used
3. The present progressive tense is used,usually to describe something that is changing or developing,but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
4. To refer to the future,headlines often use the infinitive.
5. Headlines are not always complete sentences.