Timeline for Is there a need to use an article in a headline? [closed]
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| Nov 22, 2016 at 13:58 | history | closed |
anongoodnurse Hot Licks Chenmunka Mitch curiousdannii |
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| Nov 22, 2016 at 10:33 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Laurel Taking the more restrictive definition allowed by ODO: 'the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general' and choosing standard English, I'm happy with the statement. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 7:09 | comment | added | BladorthinTheGrey | Instead of worrying about articles, you could change sentence №1 to Top restaurants within 5 minutes' walk which makes more sense. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 6:36 | answer | added | ZimbiX | timeline score: -2 | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 6:22 | comment | added | over_optimistic | #2 sounds more natural. Also if it were "8 mile walk" it should be "an" instead of "a". | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 3:40 | comment | added | Hot Licks | If you bother to search here, there are easily a dozen questions about headlinese, many with excellent answers. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 3:32 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2016 at 3:17 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Nov 22, 2016 at 2:00 | comment | added | Laurel♦ | @EdwinAshworth Actually, headlinese is a serious area of study among linguistics, with many scholarly papers examining its usage. Headlinese has different grammar rules, but it is not true to say it has no grammar rules at all. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 22:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 22:48 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's best to say 'grammaticality doesn't really apply to labels, headlines etc'. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 22:42 | history | edited | New Dev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 22:42 | comment | added | New Dev | @EdwinAshworth, thanks for the reply. To be more precise, would it be grammatically incorrect to omit an article, or is this a matter of taste/style/sound? | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 22:36 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Since you're using headlinese, 'need' becomes hard to define. I'd say the inclusion of the article improves how it sounds, but doesn't increase clarity. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 22:00 | history | edited | New Dev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 21:54 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 21:51 | history | asked | New Dev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |