Headline Review of Related Theories 1. Theory of Sentence Elements

News and feature pictures, covering the whole range of human events and interests, are assigned and placed in the layout in neat and orderly arrangement units. Under the pictures, usually there are a few clear and well-chosen words to show the essence of the picture story called caption. The caption is written by the copyreaders, who become the principal conservator of the proper standards of language in news paper. The form of the headline news has the similarities with the other news story. The conventional news story has two parts: lead and the body Mott, 1969: 65. The lead summarizes the story and serves three functions. Firstly, the lead answers the questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how. Secondly, the lead emphasizes the news feature of the story by placing it in the initial position. And the last, the lead provides such quick identification of persons, places, and events as it is necessary to an understanding of the story. The second part is the body. The body is an elaboration of the lead Mott, 1969: 65. When the facts are clear and well organized, the body will expand each of the points included in the lead in the same order, in which the lead has stated them. The material outlined by the lead may be presented based on the order of the interest. Those of greatest value being reported first and those with least value being used last. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

C. Theoretical Framework

This part provides the foundations to answer the two problem formulations in the chapter I. From the theoretical framework the writer tries to define on how the related theories are used in analyzing the object of the study. As the main object analyzed in this thesis, headline news has four parts in its format. There are the headline, the text of the news story, the picture, and also the caption. In this study, the writer just takes the headline and also the text of the news story as the corpus of the data because the significance of tense choices in news writing could only be found on the headline and also on the text of the story. The nature of headline news is in the form of fact news, action news, and quote news. In order to make precise news, the choosing of tense is very important. The theories that are going to be used are the theory of the sentence elements, theory on sentence structure, theory of tenses aspect and moods, and the more detailed theory on tenses, theory on news story elements and the characteristic of the news, the theory on how to write headline, and also the theory of headline news. Before answering the first problem, the writer analyzes all of the sentences from the data using the theory of sentence elements. The theory of sentence elements is the first theory which is used in analyzing the data. The sentences which are taken from the headlines news are analyzed by using the theory of sentence elements in order to know the elements of each sentence. English sentence consists of two parts, the subject and also the predicate. The predicate is divided into four elements, verb, object, complement, and adverbial. The writer