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‘Dembele Cannot Have Said Much To The Referee’ - grammatically correct?
The title is from an article in BeSoccer.com:
Dembele cannot have said much to the referee
"I don't know what Dembele may have said to the referee but I don't think it's a long sentence because ...
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Strange Omission of "to be" in The Onion Headlines
So I've noticed a pattern lately on the TheOnion.com of omitting 'is' from their headlines. I get shortening headlines but I can't say this pattern is familiar to me. It strikes me as obtuse and ...
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Missing punctuation and the tense usage
I have written the following sentence as a headline for an invitation email.
ABC Ltd. welcomes you to Exhibition Dubai 2017 held at the Dubai World
Trade Center from June 7 to June 9, 2017.
Am I ...
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