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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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What do you skip?

0When you are writing headlines or tables of contents, 00what else00 do you skip/omit 00beside00 articles? 02br
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00And are the colored words being used properly? On the second colored word, can you use "besides" too? 0-
  

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0 01i 00beside02i 00 means 01i 00next to02i 00 so you have to use 01i 00besides02i 00 there. 02br 02br 00 CJ0-

— CalifJim

  • 0 01i 00beside02i 00 means 01i 00next to02i 00 so you have to use 01i 00besides02i 00 there.
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0 01i00beside02i00 means 01i00next to02i00 so you have to use 01i00besides02i00 there. They are two different words.02br
00 You can omit anything that is not essential to the purpose of the headline or whatever.02br
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0 Thank you, Mr. CJ, but the contents of the headlines or others like that must 01u00make sense02u00 eventhough you can throw (?) out some non-essential words. Right? Maybe kindly supply me with a couple examples? I just want to see what can be thrown out and how much can be thrown out and still make sense. 0-
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0I think that, without knowing it, you have asked a very difficult and advanced question. 05002br
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00 Let's take the sentence I just wrote and make some headlines from it. It depends how much you want to say in the headline and how much you want to leave for the story that follows.02br
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00 Headline: STUDENT UNKNOWINGLY ASKS HARD QUESTION
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0QUESTION: I thought headlines are suppose to bring out the main points and not leave too much lying behind for the readers to pick up as they read. 02br
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00Can you tell me some names of where you would apply these truncations besides headlines? 02br
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00Tables of contents? 0-
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