The Definition Terms INTRODUCTION
news. In here, the most frequent construction which appears in the headline news as in + NP and most of the prepositions in show the meaning of denoting spatial
rather than denoting time. The third study was “A Study on Grammatical Meanings of Finite Verb
Phrases in The Jakarta Post Headline News Issued in January 2007” written by Skolastika Pritania Nirwesti in 2007. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the
finite verb phrases in the headline news. The writer analyzed the finite verb phrases and found the grammatical meanings to discuss their importance in the
news writing. In her study, she found that the finite verb phrases were more frequently used than the non-finite ones. Those finite verb phrases indicated some
grammatical meanings such as aspects terminate, perfective, progressive, moods indicative, subjunctive, imperative, voices active and passive and tenses past,
present, future. In here, the aspects were dominated by the terminate aspect, the moods were dominated by indicative mood. The voices were dominated by
passive voice, while the tenses were dominated by past tense. The
writer takes
“A Study of –ly Adverb in Washington Post and The Jakarta Post Articles” and “A Study on English Preposition in in Newsweek
Headline News Issued from May 2005 – October 2005” as related studies because both of them take the data from headlines news and also the articles from news
report such as magazine and newspaper. The writer also takes the third study “A Study on Grammatical Meanings of Finite Verb Phrases in The Jakarta Post
Headline News Issued in January 2007” because this undergraduate thesis analyzes the finite verb phrases and almost similar with the writer’s main focus to
analyze the tense choices in the verb phrases. From the studies, the writer knows that the news report has the terms which are different from the other kinds of
writing. That is why the writer tries to analyze the significance of the tense choices in the headlines news which are taken from the Jakarta Post issued on
November 1 – 30, 2007.