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the form of a simple sentence with articles omitted, e.g. ‘Frogman finds girl in river’ (Daily Worker), ‘Blaze kills 15 at Party’ (Morning Star). Articles are very frequently omitted in all types of headlines.

Syntactically headlines are characterized by different patterns of sentences and phrases:

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  full declarative sentences, e.g. ‘They Threw Bombs on Gipsy Sites’ (Morning Star), ‘Allies Now Look to London’ (The Times)
  
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  interrogative sentences, e.g. ‘Do you love war?’ (Daily World), ‘Who has never had it so good?’ (Morning Star)
  
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  nominative sentences, e. g. ‘Gloomy Sunday’ (The Guardian), ‘Atlantic sea traffic’ (The Times), ‘Union peace plan for girling stewards’ (Morning Star)
  
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  phrases with verbals – infinitive, participial and gerundial, e.g. ‘To get US aid’ (Morning Star), ‘Keeping prices down’ (The Times), ‘Preparing reply on cold war’ (Morning Star), ‘Speaking parts’ (The Sunday Times)
  
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  strings of three, four or more nouns in the attributive function before the head noun, the so-called ‘heavy premodification’ structures, e.g. Furniture Factory Pay Cut Riot.
  
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  questions in the form of statements, e.g. ‘The worse the better?’ (Daily World), ‘Growl now, smile later?’ (The Observer)
  
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  complex sentences, e.g. ‘Senate Panel Hears Board of Military Experts Who Favoured Losing Bidder’ (The New York Times), ‘Army Says It Gave LSD to Unknown Gls’ (The International Herald Tribune)
  
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  headlines including Direct Speech
  

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   introduced by a full sentence, e.g. Prince Charles says, ‘I was not in trouble’ (The Guardian),
   
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   introduced elliptically, e.g. ‘The Queen: “My deep distress”’ (The Times).
   

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