11 Analysis of text 14 Significant Lexico - grammatical Features

102 Based on the analysis above the text is a description text since the generic structure of the text is identification description. Besides that the tense that occurs in the text, present tense becomes the dominant one. From 5 clauses, 4 of them are present tense. The use of adjective and compound andectives also supported the text. Text. 14 p. 179 4. 14.1 Analysis of text 14 Register analysis of yext 14 is as follow : Field : News item reported by a newpaper Al- Riyadh Newspaper We can see from the first line of the first paragraph. Twenty one people were killed when two vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea part city of Jeddah Tenor : Journalist or news writer to public readers. We can see it from the source of the news . Reuters Mode : It is written text to read with no element of spoken language.It uses complete pattern and formal lexis. TWENTY- ONE KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT SAUDI ARABIA : Twenty one people were killed when two vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Al-Riyadh newspaper said the accident occurred on Friday when a vehicle carrying 14 Yemenis and two Saudis tried to avoid a police checkpoint by going around it, and rammed into an incoming car carrying five passengers from Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Sudan. Around 4000 people die each year in road accidents in 103 4. 14.2 Communicative Purpose From the register I can determine that the communicative purpose of the text is to inform the readers that there was an accident on a highway near the Red Sea Port of Jeddah. Twenty one people were killed in the accident. It is informed that the accident occured on Friday when a vehicle carrying 14 Yemenis and 2 Saudis tried to avoid a police checkpoint. In the last paragraph the writer mentioned that around 4000 people die each year in road accidents.

4.14.3 Text Structure

The generic structure of the text is Newsworthy events Background events Sources. Newswothy event occurs in the beginning of the text paragraph 1 . We can see in sentence Twenty – one people were killed when two vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Background events occurs in paragraph two. This stage begins with Al-Riyadh newspaper said the accident occured on Friday when a vehicle carrying14 Yamenis and two Saudis tried to avoid a police checklis by going aroud it,and remmed into an incoming car c five carrying five passangers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan. Sources occurs in third paragraph. It begins with Around 4000 people die each year in road accidents in Saudi Arabia mainly due to reckleness – Reuters.

4.14.4 Significant Lexico – grammatical Feature

The text focuses on the information about road accident that happened on a highway near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. In the accident, twenty – one people were killed. Information on the use of headlines can be seen in the text. The processes that are seen in the text are : Material process occurs in 6