A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ASPECTS OF VERB USED IN ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS OF PAKISTAN

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to find out the use of stative and dynamic aspects of verb used in English newspapers of Pakistan and stylistic use of verbs in writings.  For these purposes, the  data  of  editorials  on  the  social  issue  of  child  labor from four English newspapers namely Dawn, The Nation, Express Tribune and Daily Times, were collected from online sources of news. Mixed method approach was used to find out the results. Analysis of these newspapers was done through Software AntConc and Fairclough ‘s textual level analysis. The data of these newspapers was tagged through claws tagger to get C5 tag sets, to be put into AntConc for the extraction of stative and dynamic verbs in newspapers. The results revealed that stative verbs are used more frequently than dynamic verbs in the articles as a whole. It is also revealed that verbs play vital role in the stylistic construction of any writing. This study will be useful for future researchers and students as it will help them to analyze verbs in different aspects. This study will be helpful for future researchers to explore other aspects of grammar.