5. A victim, who was stabbed twice, survived to tell the jury a tale of
horror when Dr. Lutz's trial commenced yesterday.
6. Somebody has sentenced Andrew
Corczak, who is the leader of the opposition group called “Radicals for State Reform”, to two
years in jail for seditious activities. They reported he did not express any regrets about what
he has done.
7. High-tech testimony from Mr. Bell, who is the Chief of the Computer Security
Unit of the “LAN Inc.”, was delivered on Friday against Sam Nuts, who is a hacker, that
everybody knows well. The testimony has led to his conviction for several counts of
computer crime.
8. It was predictable, that the prosecution would reserve the most damning
testimony by their key witness until the end of the trial.
5. Identify and explain grammatical features in the following examples: 1. The ceremony was due to begin at 0200 GMT at Forest Lawn Memorial Park but
began more than an hour late.
2. The singer’s children – Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and
seven-year-old Prince II – sat in the front row next to his parents, Katherine and Joe
Jackson.
3. The officials have called for international aid, warning they may not have
sufficient resources to withstand two new storms.
4. Comments came as Beijing launched
the first Yuan-denominated bond available to outside investors.
5. They mixed infant formula
for his 2-year-old twins with the falling rain.
6. Last Thursday, flames tore through the naval
logistics base in Kolomna, 100km south-east of Moscow, destroying office buildings and
warehouses and equipment.
GRAPHOLOGY AND PUNCTUATION FEATUES OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES 1. Short, often one sentence paragraphs which are used to create a blow-by-blow effect and
to break up the story into small readable units.
2. The 1st paragraphs are used to expand information given in the headlines. The first paragraph
either gives more on the facts already included into the headline or introduces totally new facts
bearing on the topic.
3. The subheadings are not really informative. Their main function is to break up the text into
easy- to- read sections. Subheadings are usually short, non-predicative, sometimes very
emotional.
4. Quotation marks are used to give extra weight to certain phrases, to distance the writer from
an opinion or reported fact and finally to indicate technical or noble expressions.
