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    The document discusses the special style used in English news headlines. Headlines are short and use non-standard grammar rules. They often omit verbs, articles, and auxiliary verbs. Multiple nouns are strung together and nouns are frequently used to modify other nouns. Simple tenses replace progressive and perfect forms. Words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Infinitives, present tense, and passive structures without auxiliaries are common. Punctuation like colons and quotation marks have specific uses in headlines.

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    The document discusses the special style used in English news headlines. Headlines are short and use non-standard grammar rules. They often omit verbs, articles, and auxiliary verbs. Multiple nouns are strung together and nouns are frequently used to modify other nouns. Simple tenses replace progressive and perfect forms. Words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Infinitives, present tense, and passive structures without auxiliaries are common. Punctuation like colons and quotation marks have specific uses in headlines.

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    The document discusses the special style used in English news headlines. Headlines are short and use non-standard grammar rules. They often omit verbs, articles, and auxiliary verbs. Multiple nouns are strung together and nouns are frequently used to modify other nouns. Simple tenses replace progressive and perfect forms. Words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Infinitives, present tense, and passive structures without auxiliaries are common. Punctuation like colons and quotation marks have specific uses in headlines.

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    The document discusses the special style used in English news headlines. Headlines are short and use non-standard grammar rules. They often omit verbs, articles, and auxiliary verbs. Multiple nouns are strung together and nouns are frequently used to modify other nouns. Simple tenses replace progressive and perfect forms. Words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Infinitives, present tense, and passive structures without auxiliaries are common. Punctuation like colons and quotation marks have specific uses in headlines.

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    News report

    Headline and Lead


    Special Style Headline
    • Headlines are short titles above news report (e.g. DOG FINDS
    ROMAN TREASURE). English news headlines can be very difficult
    to understand. One reason for this is headlines are often written in a
    special style which is very different from the ordinary English. In this
    style there are some special rules of grammar and words are used in
    unusual ways.
    1. Headlines are not always complete sentences. Many headlines consist of
    noun phrases with no verb.

    • MORE WAGE CUTS


    • LUXURY HOTEL DEATH
    • EXETER MAN’S DOUBLE MARRIAGE BID
    2. Headlines often contain strings of three, four or more
    nouns; nouns earlier in the string modify those that follow.
    • FURNITURE FACTORY PAY CUT PROTEST
    Headlines like these can be difficult to understand. It sometimes helps to
    read them backwards, furniture factory pay cut protest refers to a protest
    about a CUT (reduction) in PAY at a FACTORY that makes
    FURNITURE.
    3. Headlines often leave out articles and the verb be.

    a. SHAKESPEARE PLAY IMMORAL SAYS HEADMASTER

    b. SCHOOLBOY WALKS IN SPACE


    4. In headlines, simple tenses are often used instead of progressive or
    perfect forms. The simple present is used for both present and past
    events.
    • STUDENTS FIGHT FOR COURSE CHANGES (… are fighting . .)
    • BLIND GIRL CLIMBS EVEREST (= . . . has climbed . . .)

    • The present progressive is used to talk about changes. Be is usually


    dropped
    • BRITAIN GETTING WARMER, SAY SCIENTISTS TRADE FIGURES
    IMPROVING
    5. Many headline words are used as both nouns and verbs, and nouns are
    often used to modify other nouns (2nd point). So it is not always easy to
    work out the structure of a sentence.
    • US CUTS AID TO THIRD world (= The US reduces its help . . . CUTS
    is a verb, AID is a noun.)
    • AID CUTS PROTEST (= There has been a protest about the reduction
    in aid, aid and CUTS are both nouns.)
    • CUTS aid REBELS (= The reduction is helping the revolutionaries.
    CUTS is a noun, aid is a verb.)
    6. Headlines often use infinitives to refer to the future.

    PM TO VISIT AUSTRALIA HOSPITALS TO take fewer patients

    • For is also used to refer to future movements or plans.


    • TROOPS FOR GLASGOW? (= Are soldiers going to be sent to
    Glasgow?)
    7. Auxiliary verbs are usually dropped from passive
    structures.
    • MURDER HUNT: MAN HELD (= . . . a man is being held by police.)
    • SIX KILLED IN EXPLOSION (= Six people have been killed . . .)
    • Note that forms like HELD, ATTACKED are usually past participles with passive
    meanings, not past tenses (which are rare in headlines). Compare:
    • AID PROTEST: PRESIDENT ATTACKED (= . . . the President has been attacked.)
    • AID PROTEST: PRESIDENT ATTACKS CRITICS (= . . . the President has
    attacked
    • her critics.)
    • -BOY FOUND SAFE (= The missing boy has been found safe; he is safe.)
    • BOY FINDS SAFE (= A boy has found a safe.)
    8. As and in are often used instead of longer connecting expressions.

    • HOSPITAL BOSS AXED AS PATIENTS DIE (= . . . because patients


    have died.)
    • FOOTBALL MANAGER IN CAR CRASH
    9. Punctuation Marks

    • A colon (:) is often used to separate the subject of a headline from what is said
    about it.
    • STRIKES: PM TO ACT MOTORWAY CRASH: DEATH TOLL RISES
    • Quotation marks ('. . .’) are used to show that words were said by somebody else,
    and that the report does not necessarily claim that they are true.
    CRASH DRIVER 'HAD BEEN DRINKING’
    • A question mark (?) is often used when something is not certain.
    • CRISIS OVER BY SEPTEMBER?
    HOMEWORK
    • Step one: Choose broader themes like
    environmental issues, social injustice, local
    community events, advancement in
    technology, sports, politics, cinema, etc.
    • Step two: Gather the headlines based on your
    theme from different sources of newspapers
    • Step three: Arrange them on A4 size paper.
    You can also include the images and
    illustrations related to your headlines to make
    your collage attractive ( to hang on your
    notice board.)

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