3rd Analysis: Weather Forecast

            In form, this text is full of nouns and adjectives. These nouns are the locations that were specified for public awareness. The adjectives were used to provide visual explanation to the public as well. It is also rich in compound sentences, showing the need to complete all the necessary information.

            In terms of lexical and grammatical meaning, cohesion was achieved through the following ways. First is through repetition, the word country was mentioned twice and since this is a weather forecast from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) we can all assume that the country refers to the Philippines. “Moderate” and “region” were also repeated twice to emphasize the description of the weather and the location involved. Second is through the use of semi-identical words like strong-rough and weather-temperature. Third is the sense of relation in the words “country-region-province”. Fourth is through opposite words such as east–northeast, whole-isolated which was translated in Filipino as “buo” and “pulo-pulo” and the adjectives moderate-rough which refers to the condition of our coastal waters. Last is the association to each other of the words “rainshowers-thunderstorms” and “winds-cloudy”. In addition to grammatical cohesion, the conjunction “and” was used to connect words and ideas in this forecast.

            The whole text is in the future tense since this is a forecast for the whole day that is yet to happen. Compared to the weather news in the newspaper, radio and television there is no entertaining dialogues nor any side comments and suggestion. It is expected to be direct to the point since it is a formal report intended for the general public.