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