1. What is headline?

Nominative sentences, e. g. ‘Gloomy Sunday’ (The Guardian), ‘Atlantic sea traffic’ (The Times), ‘Union peace plan for girling stewards’ (Morning Star)

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  Phrases with verbals – infinitive, participial and gerundial, e.g. ‘To get US aid’ (Morning Star), ‘Keeping prices down’ (The Times), ‘Preparing reply on cold war’ (Morning Star), ‘Speaking parts’ (The Sunday Times)
  

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  Strings of three, four or more nouns in the attributive function before the head noun, the so-called ‘heavy premodification’ structures, e.g. Furniture Factory Pay Cut Riot.
  

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  Questions in the form of statements, e.g. ‘The worse the better?’ (Daily World), ‘Growl now, smile later?’ (The Observer)
  

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  Complex sentences, e.g. ‘Senate Panel Hears Board of Military Experts Who Favoured Losing Bidder’ (The New York Times), ‘Army Says It Gave LSD to Unknown Gls’ (The International Herald Tribune)
  

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  Headlines including Direct Speech
  

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   Introduced by a full sentence, e.g. Prince Charles says, ‘I was not in trouble’ (The Guardian),
   

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   Introduced elliptically, e.g. ‘The Queen: “My deep distress”’ (The Times).
   

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  The use of the Present tense form to denote an action which actually happened in the past.
  

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  The use of an infinitive form with ‘to’ to express a future action, e.g. ‘MP to Open Health Center’ – means that a member of Parliament is going to open a Health Center.