NEWS ITEM

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A. Definition Of News Item Text

   News Item Text is a type of text that provides current information about events that are important to you. News Item Text aims to provide information to readers or listeners. Usually News Item Text provides information which is the latest event.

   News item text is a type of text that provides information about daily events or events. News items are one of the types of text in English that are used if you want to learn to be a good journalist. The events that are conveyed to the reader are events that are considered important and deserve to be made into news. An incident that is not important or does not deserve to be known by many people does not deserve to be made news. The communicative purpose of this type of text is to reveal to the reader, listener or viewer events or events that are considered important or important.

B. Structure and Language Characteristics

   In news item text, there are three parts of the linguistic structure, namely:

1. Main Event

   This section is also known as newsworthy event. This section is the part that tells or contains news about the main event or event which is usually written in the form of a summary (summary).

2. Background events

   This part, which is often referred to as Elaboration, is the part that tells the background of the event or incident, who was involved and the location of the incident.

3. Source

   The last part is the source, which tells about comments, witnesses to events, expert opinions, and so on regarding the events or events that are reported.

   In each type of text in English there are linguistic characteristics that can distinguish it from other types of text. The most prominent feature of news item text is its concise and concise language. The following are the linguistic characteristics of other text news items:

• Brief information contained in the headline
• Focus on an incident
• Dominant uses saying verbs, such as reported, quoted, said, preached, and so on.
• Generally use action verbs, which are verbs that show activity
• Often use auxiliary verbs that show time and place
• Using material processes

C. Characteristic features News Item Text

1. Short
2. Using Action Verbs
3. Using Past Tense
4. Using Saying Verbs
5. Use verbs to describe time, place and manner.

D. Example of News Item Text

1.

Nepal Rescuers Find 3 Bodies Near Crashed US Marine

Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, officials said. Nepal’s Defense Secretary Iswori Poudyal gave no details about the nationalities of the victims. The helicopter was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers. The wreckage was found near Gothali village in the district of Dolakha. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal had no immediate comment Friday.

The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by a Nepalese army helicopter Friday, followed days of intense search involving U.S. and Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites. The U.S. relief mission was deployed soon after a magnitude-7.8 quake hit April 25, killing more than 8,200 people. It was followed by another magnitude-7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed 117 people and injured 2,800. The second quake was centered between Kathmandu and Mount Everest, and hit hardest in deeply rural parts of the Himalayan foothills, hammering many villages reached only by hiking trails and causing road-blocking landslides. (Source: Nepal rescue team finds three bodies near crashed U.S. Marine helicopter, The Globe and Mail, May 15 2015)