News Item

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                                    News Item

News Item is fsctual text which informs the readers about event of the day which are considered newsworthy important.

Social function of news item is;to inform readers,listerner of viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

Generic structure:

·          Newsworthy Event (s) : recount the events in summary form

·         Bacground Event (s) : elaborate what happened.to whom,in what circumstances

·         Sources:comment by participants in,witnesses to,and expert on the event.

Significant grammar features:

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       Short,telegraphic information about story captured in headline.

·         Gennerally using simple past tense.

·         Use of material processes to retell the event.

·         Using action verbs, e.g : were,run,go,kill,etc

·         Using saying verb e.g : say,tell

·         Focus on circumstances

·         Use of projecting vebal processes in sources stages