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Vicka Aghazaryan Posted 10 years ago
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''The Fault in Our Stars''

There is a novel ''The Fault in Our Stars'' by author John Green.
I supposed that the title should be ''The Fault is in Our Stars''
Why is ''is'' omitted?
  

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There's a fine line between these two versions. "The Fault in Our Stars" means there may be other faults in other places. But we are going to deal with the fault in our stars and leave alone all the other faults.

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  • There's a fine line between these two versions.
  • "The Fault in Our Stars" means there may be other faults in other places.
  • But we are going to deal with the fault in our stars and leave alone all the other faults.
  • ''The Fault is in Our Stars'' means there was something that ruined our lives and we've been looking for the cause, and finally we found!
  • The Fault (that ruined our lives) is in our stars!
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There's a fine line between these two versions.
"The Fault in Our Stars" means there may be other faults in other places. But we are going to deal with the fault in our stars and leave alone all the other faults.
''The Fault is in Our Stars'' means there was something that ruined our lives and we've been looking for the cause, and finally we found! The Fault (that ruined our lives) is in
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Vicka AghazaryanWhy is is omitted?
A title need not be a complete sentence, and most titles are not complete sentences. The title is a noun phrase composed of "the fault" and the modifying prepositional phrase "in our stars", and together it means "the fault that is in our stars". That is, we may surmise, the subject. There is no predicate.

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