News item

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.

The purpose of news item is to inform the readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

Generic structures of news item:
• Newsworthy events (gives events in a summary form)
• Background events (elaborates about what happened/what caused the events)
• Sources (comments given by participants involved in the events)

Language features of news item:
• Using action verbs
• Using saying verbs
• Using passive sentence

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