C. Objective of the Study
As the arrangement of the problem formulations, the goal of this research can be formulated as follows; the first is to find what kinds of tenses that
commonly appear in The Jakarta Post headlines news. Basically there are only two kinds of tense, past and present, but when the tenses are combined with the
progressive aspect or perfective aspect there will be 12 combinations of English tenses. In here the writer would mention the tense variants which are found in The
Jakarta Post headlines news and give the examples which are taken from the headlines news. The writer also mentions the percentage distribution of each tense
variant which appear in the headlines news. The second objective is to identify the reason of using those tenses in
referring the meaning of the sentence and also to show the occurrence of each grammatical meaning. A tense variant conveys a different grammatical meaning
from the others and sometimes a tense variant may refer to 2 or 3 meanings. For example a simple past tense can be used to give description about a definite single
completed eventaction in the past, an event with duration that applied in the past and no longer applies in the present, habitual or repeated action event in the past,
and etc.
D. Benefits of the Study
Some of the benefits of this study are to give knowledge to the readers about the kinds of tenses. Through the analysis and the examples which are given,
the readers are able to identify the tense variants in the sentences especially in the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
news report and the reader will know what kind of tenses which frequently appears in the news writing. As the other advantages, the reader can also know
about the grammatical meanings of each tense which are usually used in the news writing.
E. The Definition Terms
The terms that are used in this research are verbs, tense and news. 1. Verb
Asher and Simpson 1994: 5186 describe a verb as a member of the word class traditionally defined as a ‘doing’ word, denoting an action or
states, for example knows, give, and broke. There are two classes of verbs forms. They are finite verb and non-finite verb. A finite verb contains a
finite form of the verb, showing tense distinction between past and present, and being associated with particular subject first, second, third
person, singular or plural. A non-finite verb consists non-finite forms of the verb i.e. the infinitive form usually with to, the present participle, or
the past participle Jackson, 1982: 72. 2. Tense
According to Curme tense is a verb form that expresses actions which occur on certain time in the past, present and future. Each tense can have
a simple form and can be combined with more complex forms. Tenses express time from the standpoint of the moment in which the speaker is
speaking without reference to some other fact 1931: 354. Tense is any PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
of the form of a verb that may be used to indicate the time of the action or stated, expressed by the verb Hornby, 1995: 1231.
3. News As cited in New Survey of Journalism Mott, 1969: 49, M. Lyle Spencer
states that news can be defined as any accurate fact or idea that will interest a large numbers of readers. William S. Maulsby as cited in Sam
Abede Pareno, 2003: 6 also states that news may be defined as an accurate, unbiased account of the significant facts of a timely happening
that is of the interest to the readers of the newspaper that prints the account. And according to Erie C. Hepwood as cited in Sam Abede
Pareno, 2003: 6 news is the first report of significant events which have interest for the public.
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