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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Verbless clause
Djokovic hopeful problems are behind him. (An article headline.)
Is "Djokovic helpful" a verbless clause in the above?
Is "Djokovic helpful" a verbless clause in the above?
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Anonymous Is "Djokovic helpful" (hopeful) a verbless clause in the above? Yes. The linking verb be is frequently omitted in headlines.
- Anonymous Is "Djokovic helpful" (hopeful) a verbless clause in the above?
- Yes.
- The linking verb be is frequently omitted in headlines.
- You can even have two such clauses in this headline.
- Djokovic hopeful problems behind him I think you can see that the more you omit, the stranger the headline becomes, so editors have to be careful they don't overdo it.
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AnonymousIs "Djokovic helpful" (hopeful) a verbless clause in the above?Yes. The linking verb be is frequently omitted in headlines. You can even have two such clauses in this headline.
Djokovic hopeful problems behind him
I think you can see that the more you omit, the stranger the headlin
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Thank you, CJ, for the reply and correction. (Sometimes my tablet writes not intended words; I write "hopeful" but nevertheless it unexpectedly changes it into "helpful". I blame my "fat fingers" and script prompts for that.)
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