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Topic 3: Lexicogrammatical Features of News Reports: Task 4

This document discusses the lexicogrammatical features typically found in news report captions. Captions usually contain one or two grammatically complete sentences with a subject, verb, and object/complement. The first sentence is usually in the simple present tense and active voice, while the second may be in the simple past tense. Prepositional phrases are often used to specify time, place, and other circumstances. Headlines are usually in bold and consist of noun phrases or present participles. The task asks the reader to analyze these features in additional captions, but none are provided in the appendix.

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Topic 3: Lexicogrammatical Features of News Reports: Task 4

This document discusses the lexicogrammatical features typically found in news report captions. Captions usually contain one or two grammatically complete sentences with a subject, verb, and object/complement. The first sentence is usually in the simple present tense and active voice, while the second may be in the simple past tense. Prepositional phrases are often used to specify time, place, and other circumstances. Headlines are usually in bold and consist of noun phrases or present participles. The task asks the reader to analyze these features in additional captions, but none are provided in the appendix.

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Topic 3: Lexicogrammatical Features of News Reports

Task 4
Now, you will analyse the LEXICOGRAMMATICAL FEATURES of the captions.

1) The main part of most captions is one or two grammatically complete


sentences, consisting of
- the Subject (Who/What?)
- the Verb
- the Object/Complement (Who/What?)
- Prepositional Phrases of Time (When?)
- Prepositional Phrases of Place (Where?)

2) The Verb
- the first sentence is usually in the Simple Present Tense, in the Active
voice: pose, talk, browse, holds, poses, sign, celebrates, sign, stands,
loot, supply, is, photographs, comes, poses, arranges, can’t command.
- the second sentence is usually in the Simple PastTense: shared, was,
was.

3) Prepositional phrases to state the place, time, and other circumstances


Example: Caption 1
- on the podium, with their trophies, after beating Denmark’s Mathias Boe and Carsten
Mogensen, during the men’s doubles final, at the All England Open Badminton
Championships, in Birmingham, England, on Sunday.

4) Bold characters to state the headline, mostly in Noun Phrases or Present


Participles.
Example:
- Winning duo:
- Celebrating rights:

Now, it’s your turn to analyse the lexicogrammatical features of all the other captions.
When you are done, check out the answer keys.
Dear Instructor,

I am sorry for not being able to do Learning Task M 4 LA 2 especially task 1 – 4 because I
cannot find 20 captions in the appendix.

Thank you

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