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Inggris Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
No passport
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34134682
"Radicals: The man with no passport
3 September 2015 Last updated at 10:22 BST
Abdul Muhid does not have a passport - nor does his wife. He was arrested in September on suspicion of membership of a proscribed organisation, he's now on bail and had the passports as well as numerous other items confiscated from his home."
If I don't read further, it makes me think they never have a passport.
"Radicals: The man with no passport
3 September 2015 Last updated at 10:22 BST
Abdul Muhid does not have a passport - nor does his wife. He was arrested in September on suspicion of membership of a proscribed organisation, he's now on bail and had the passports as well as numerous other items confiscated from his home."
If I don't read further, it makes me think they never have a passport.
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inggris If I don't read further, it makes me think they never have a passport. That is part of the purpose of a headline—to tantalize.
- inggris If I don't read further, it makes me think they never have a passport.
- That is part of the purpose of a headline—to tantalize.
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inggrisIf I don't read further, it makes me think they never have a passport.That is part of the purpose of a headline—to tantalize.
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The reporter states as a fact that "he . . . had the passports . . . confiscated from his home."
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inggrisIf I don't read further, it makes me think they never had a passport.Exactly. That's the trick. If the man has no passport, we assume he never had one, but that's not the intended meaning. It turns out that he had one, but now he doesn't have one.
This technique is much more effectively used in comic cont
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