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Class candle 16 Posted 5 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Tense query
In this sentence, which I have copied from a newspaper, "Fire kills 18, mostly children, at China martial arts school". Would you explain to me why the verb kills is in the present tense and not present perfect tense? As the fire have already killed the children why not use the words have killed?
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class candle 16 "Fire kills 18, mostly children, at China martial arts school". That is a headline or title of an article. The grammar of headlines is different from normal English.
- class candle 16 "Fire kills 18, mostly children, at China martial arts school".
- That is a headline or title of an article.
- The grammar of headlines is different from normal English.
- Do not use headline-grammar for an academic essay!
- org/us/grammar/british-grammar/newspaper-headlines
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class candle 16"Fire kills 18, mostly children, at China martial arts school".
That is a headline or title of an article. The grammar of headlines is different from normal English. Do not use headline-grammar for an academic essay!
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