CAPTION TEXT [1]

 

Caption Text is a text that appears or is under the image.

This caption is similar to a poster, if the poster is a print media, the caption is usually circulated via electronic media or the internet. 

Based on the picture, the sentences used in the caption text are fact sentences.

Social Function

Describe or command on a picture, photograph, graph, chart

Text Structure

Can be :

-action/event/activity

-people/thing that involved

-condition

Language Features

-Noun Phrase for a thing, a person, an animal, a location, etc. which is focused on, with or without a, the, this, tohes, my, their, etc.

-Verb Phrase dealing picture/photograph/graph/chart

-spelling, punctuation, and handwriting

Example of Caption Text:

TEXT 1

Mark Gross, left, Daniel Bastian, Sebastian Trinidad, Farnk Courten and Suffolk Police Officer Matias Ferreira, a double amputee, share experiences at the first amputee support group in Suffolk Country at Momentum Rehabilitation in East Islip Thursday.

TEXT 2

Students of Gadjah Mada English School visited Kraton Yogyakarta to practice speaking with the tourist. April 2001.

Exercise

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