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Social function of news item is to inform readers listeners or viewers about event of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.


Significant Grammar Features

• short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
• general using Simple Past Tense
• use of material processes to retell the event
• using action verb, e.g. : were, run,go,kill,etc.
• using saying verb, e.g. : say,tell
• focus on circumstances
• use of projecting verbal Processes in sources stanges

There are somerules that can help that can help to make newspaper headlines more comprehensible.

1. the passive voice is used without the appropriate form of “ be “ .
2. it is unusual to find complex forms, generally the simple present form is used.
3. the present progressive tense is used, usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
4. to refers to the future, headlines often use the infinitive.
5. headlines are not always complete sentence.

1. Could+Verb base

• to offer suggestions or possibilities
• to indicate that the ability existed in the past form but doesn’t exist now
• to express polite requests


2. Would+verb base

• for an action that was repeated regularly in the past
• insert rather into the pattern and use this expression to express preferences
• to express polite request


3. Should+verb base

• to give definition advice (advisability)
• to express the subject’s obligation or duty


4. Might+Verb base

• to tell possibilities
• to express polite request

Every grammatically correct sentence or clause must contain a finite verb; sentence fragments not containing finite verb; sentence fragments not containing finite verbs are describe as phrases.

Some interjections can play the same role. Even in English, a sentence like thanks for your help ! has an interjection where it could have a subject and a finite verb form (compare I appreciate your help!).

In English, as in most related languages , only verb in certain moods are finite these include :

* the indicative mood (expression a state of affairs); e.g. , “ The bulldozer demolished the restaurant,’’ “ The leaves were yellow and stiff.”

• the imperative mood (giving a command)
• the subjunctive mood (expressing something that might or might not be the state of affairs, depending on some other part of the sentence); nearly extinct in English.


A verb is a word that expresses an occurrence, act,or mode of being. Finite verb, sometimes, called main verbs, are limited by time (see tense), person, and number.

The finite verb are highlighted in the following sentence :

The finite verbs are highlighted in the following sentence :

The bear caught a salmon in the stream.

Who ate the pic ?

Stop !

A nonfinite verb form-such as a participle, infinitive , or gerund-is not limited by time (see tense), person, and number.

Verb form that are not finite include :
• the infinitive
• participles (e.g., “ the broken Window … ‘’, The wheezing gentleman …”)
• gerunds and gerundives.

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