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    The document defines a news item as a text that informs readers about important or newsworthy events of the day. A news item typically includes the main event or events, background details to elaborate what happened, and sources of information. The purpose of a news item is to inform readers about important daily events. Key language features of news items include using simple past tense, attribution verbs, adverbs of time and place, and material processes to retell events. An example news item provided details the death of a veteran Indonesian actor.

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    The document defines a news item as a text that informs readers about important or newsworthy events of the day. A news item typically includes the main event or events, background details to elaborate what happened, and sources of information. The purpose of a news item is to inform readers about important daily events. Key language features of news items include using simple past tense, attribution verbs, adverbs of time and place, and material processes to retell events. An example news item provided details the death of a veteran Indonesian actor.

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    The document defines a news item as a text that informs readers about important or newsworthy events of the day. A news item typically includes the main event or events, background details to elaborate what happened, and sources of information. The purpose of a news item is to inform readers about important daily events. Key language features of news items include using simple past tense, attribution verbs, adverbs of time and place, and material processes to retell events. An example news item provided details the death of a veteran Indonesian actor.

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    Definition of News Item

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

    It means if there is an important event that should be known by many people, then this event
    deserves news. Well, the news text is called the news item text. However, if there are events that
    people do not deserve, then they are not definitely worth to be news.

    Generic Structure of News Item

    # Main Events / Newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form.


    # Elaboration / Background event(s): they elaborate what happened, to whom, in what
    circumstance
    # Resource of Information (Source) : it contains comments by participants in, witnesses to and
    authorities expert on the event

    Purpose of News Item

    News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered
    newsworthy or important.
    Or
    – To inform the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day
    – To present information the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day

    Language Feature of News Item

    – Focusing on circumstances (using a simple language in writing the text)


    – Using saying verbs: “….”, She said, informed, told, reported.
    – Sometimes at the beginning of news, the scene is mentioned : Jakarta – … .. / Kuala Lumpur –
    …
    – Using Past tense in explaining news events. But if it is a fact that until now still happen or still
    in the form of fact, then can use simple present tense.
    – Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
    – Using adverbs: time, place and manner.
    – Uses of material processes to retell the event

    Example of News Items Text

    Didi Petet Died


    Veteran actor Didi Widiatmoko, popularly known as Didi Petet, died at the age of 58 at his
    residence in Sasak Tinggi, Ciputat, South Tangerang, on Friday morning.
    Didi’s niece Muthia Kautsar said that Didi, who starred in a number of comedy and drama films
    in the 1980s and 1990s, collapsed and lost consciousness when attending an expo in Milan, Italy,
    recently.
    “He just arrived home on May 10 after attending the exhibition. In that city, he collapsed and lost
    consciousness and returned home in a wheelchair,” she said.
    On Tuesday, Didi was taken to Bandung for treatment. Muthia said no diseases were detected
    but he died on Friday.
    Didi’s body is laid out in his residence on Jl. Bambu Apus in Sasak Tinggi, Ciputat, South
    Tangerang. It has yet to be decided when and where he will be buried.

    The Biggest Insect was Found – An Example of News Item Text


    An explorer has found the biggest insect ever on record – so large it can scoff a carrot. The insect
    is called a Weta g and has a huge wing span of seven i

    My mother said ‘’ I don’t like tennis’’

    My mother said that she doesn,t like tennis

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