identification of news item text

Identifications of News Item tex

 Social function of news item
o To inform readers or listenersabout eventsof the day which are considered newsworthy or importand

 Generic structure of news item
o Newsworthy event(tells the main event in a summary form)
o Background event/ elaboration(elaborate what heppened, tell what caused the incident,if can be a background, participant, time, and place relating to the news)
o Sources ( comments by participants, witnesses, authorities and experts involved the event)

 Language feature of news item
o Information on the use of head lines
o Use of action verbs (hit, attack)
o Use of saying verbs (aid, added, claimed)
o Use of passive sentences
o Use of adverbs in passive sentences
Title → Landslide kills 10 in Indonesia
Newsworthy event → Heavy rains sent rocks and other materials down a foot cliff in Malang district in east Java island. Police Capt. Prayitno said nine men died instantly while they were gathering firewood near a river Sunday.
Backgroound events → The disasters come in part because of logging and slash-and-burn farming have destroyed many native forests that used to prevent erosion. Tropical Indonesia is particularly prone to landslides and flooding
Sources → Police say a landslide on indonesia’s island main island killed 10 poeple over the weekend.he monday that the 10th victim died in a hospital later.
Vocab text:
Victim → korban
Flooding → banjir
Landslide → tanah longsor
Particularly → khususnya
Destroyed → memusnahkan
Pevent → mencegah
Gathering → mengumpulkan

equal comparisons

Comparison (kalimat perbandingan) adalah kalimat yang digunakan untuk membandingkan dua noun atau lebih. Comparison pada umumnya dibuat dengan menggunakan adjective (kata sifat) atau adverb (kata keterangan) dan kadang-kadang dengan menggunakan noun.

Tipe kalimat perbandingan ada tiga, yaitu: equal comparisons, comparative, dan superlative. Tulisan ini khusus membahas penggunaan “as…as”, “the same… as” dalam equal comparisons.

Equal comparison

Equal comparison menyatakan bahwa hal yang dibandingkan adalah sama (tidak berbeda). Polanya adalah sebagai berikut:
S + verb + as +

adjective
adverb

+ as +

noun
pronoun

Contoh:

1. Dadang is as tall as I. (Dadang sama tingginya dengan saya).
2. Is a rose as fragrant as a jasmine? (Apakah sekuntum mawar sama harumnya dengan sekuntuk melati?).
3. Dedi sings as well as his wife. (Dedi bernyanyi sama baiknya dengan istrinya)
4. Does Michael Schumacher drive as fast as Valentino Rossi? (Apakah Michael Schumacher mengendarai (mobil) sama cepatnya dengan Valentino Rossi?).

Note:

a. Bentuk pronoun yang digunakan setelah as adalah subject pronoun (yaitu: I, you, they, we, he, she, it). Walaupun dalam conversation, object pronoun sering digunakan, tetapi dalam standard written English, object pronoun (yaitu: me, them, us, him, her) tidak boleh digunakan.

Contoh:

1. Joni is as clever as she. (Joni sama pintarnya dengan dia). INCORRECT jika, Joni is as clever as her.
2. My brother is as naughty as they. (Kakak saya sama jahilnya dengan mereka). INCORRECT jika, My brother is as naughty as them.
3. You study as frequently as he. (Kamu belajar sama seringnya dengan dia). INCORRECT jika, You study as frequently as him.

b. Dalam kalimat negatif, so juga dapat digunakan sebelum adjective atau pronoun; Dalam hal ini, so menggantikan as yang di awal.

Contoh:

1. Joni is not as clever as she = Joni is not so clever as she. (Joni tidak sepintar dia).
2. My brother is not as naughty as they = My brother is not so naughty as they. (Kakak saya tidak sejahil mereka).
3. You don’t study as frequently as he = You don’t study so frequently as he. (Kamu belajar tidak sesering dia).

Selain pola di atas, equal comparison juga dapat dinyatakan dengan menggunakan pola berikut:
S + verb + the same + noun + as +

noun
pronoun

Untuk mengaplikasikan pola ini, nouns harus sinkron dengan adjectivenya. Hafalkan adjectives dan nouns-nya pada tabel berikut:
Adjective

Noun
heavy, light (berat, ringan)
wide, narrow (lebar, sempit)
deep, shallow (dalam, dangkal)
long, short (panjang, pendek)
big, small (besar, kecil)
High/tall, short (tinggi, pendek)

Weight (berat)
Width (luas)
Depth (kedalaman)
Length (panjang)
Size (ukuran)
Height (tinggi)

Contoh:

1. Budi is the same weight as she = Budi is as heavy as she. (Budi sama beratnya dengan dia.
2. My teacher is the same height as my brother = My teacher is as tall as my brother. (Guru saya setinggi kakak saya).
3. Your well is the same depth as yours = Your well is as deep as yours. (Sumurmu sedalam sumur saya).
4. My father’s land is the same width as your father’s = My father’s land is as wide as your father’s. (Lahan bapak saya seluas lahan bapakmu).
5. These trees are the same as those. (Pohon-pohon ini sama dengan pohon-pohon itu).
6. Canadian speaks the same language as American does. (Orang Kanada berbicara bahasa yang sama dengan orang Amerika).

Note: Untuk menyatakan tidak sama dengan (kebalikan dari the same as), gunakan different from. INCORRECT jika menggunakan different than.

Contoh:

1. These trees are different from those. (Pohon-pohon ini berbeda dengan pohon-pohon itu).
2. Indonesian speaks different language from American does. (Orang Indonesia berbicara bahasa yang berbeda dengan orang Amerika).