On Importance of the Grammatical Features Applied in Newspaper

On Importance of the Grammatical Features Applied in

Newspaper &Magazine English

姓名：谌琦学号：201030221115 班级：10英语（1）班

Abstract ：Newspapers today are an integral part of our society. They inform and entertain people in the world everyday. Inevitably, reading English newspaper has become a goodway to learn English and to know the outside world. But does the language used by English newspapers published in China and that used by newspapers published in English speaking countries share similar syntactic features or differ much from each other. to reveal the syntactic difference and similarities two newspapers are selected-China Daily and the New York Tunes.

Though some of the findings go against the previous viewpoints, they have their reasonability as it is a quantitative study based on international news reports. It is hoped that researchers engage

into a systematic analysis of English newspaper published in China from a comprehensive perspective in exploring more linguistic points, such as phonological, lexical and discourse analysis. Key words: news reports; grammatical features; similarities and differences; corpus

1.English grammar

It was not until the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries did the study English grammar begin. In the early sixteenth century the English language was spoken by only a small minority of the world's population. Since that time great change has taken place. English explorers and colonists also extended the influence of England'sculture and language to the farthest regions of the world. However, until the middle of the eighteenth century that the first widely respected detailed vernacular English grammar was published, Bishop Robert Lowth's a short introduction to English grammar's were almost unavoidably influenced by Latin grammar for centuries. It is not surprising to find that those who wrote these first English grammars were largely based their principles on Latin. However, not all the grammarians are subject to the rules of Latin. Joseph Priestley,and a few others, like the American lexicographer Noah Webster, spoke out against the prescriptivists' slavish reliance on the authority of Latin. Priestley express dismay at the assertion that the double negative was "incorrect" and John Wallis's rule about the use of shall and will.

2.The framework of Traditional Grammar

Traditionally, a sentence is seen as a sequence of words. The study of sentence formation involves a great deal of the study of the word. According to the traditional grammar the words of the English language may be divided into eight categories based on the ideas that they signify or the functions they perform in larger structures, or both.The eight parts of speech are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions,conjunctions, and interjections. And the combinations of members of the eight parts of speech categories in grammatical constructions are called phrases, clauses, or sentences.

(1) Phrases

When groups function, the group of words function a group- in the same way that