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You are correct - grammar and punctuation rules can be bent in titles. The most obvious examples of this can be found in newspaper headlines. This is a nice summary of headline grammar. …

I'm uncertain about the headline below according to its grammar. Do you consider the headline grammatically correct? … And do you prefer the headline including the "with" (inside the brackets) or excluding the "with"? Thank you very much beforehand! …

The CNN headline reads: Queen won’t return to London to appoint new British PM, for first time in her reign Why the definite article the is omitted in "for first time" and "Queen"? … Is it just to keep a title shorter or there is any grammar justification for that? …

Would anyone care about grammar while reading this headline? Ouch! …

I recently saw the following headline on the front page of a national newspaper: "SNP erases dads from family life" While I have little confidence in my knowledge of grammar, and doubt a national newspaper … would make such an obvious grammar mistake on their front page, the sentence doesn't sound right to me. …

my grammar book deals with the ambiguity of phrases. … I don't understand, how this short headline can be read right in this second sense. In my opinion "bite" is only the infinitive and so it can be only read in the false sense. …

I had an internet argument about grammar (unwise, I know) on a headline that read: The Food Gap Is Widening - Wealthy people are eating better than ever, while the poor are eating worse. … He argued that it wasn't a sentence, and that the headline read: Wealthy people are eating better than ever, while the poor are eating worse [than before now]. …

It was this that the newspaper headline summarised as "likely unconstitutional". … This is in headline-grammar that omits much that would make a grammatical sentence in other cases; outside of a headline or title we'd expect it to be something more like "It is likely that the NSA phone …

Attribution 1 "Newspaper Headlines - English Grammar Today." Cambridge Dictionary. … Accessed March 24, 2018. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/types-of-english-formal-informal-etc/newspaper-headlines. …

The grammar in your sentence is not wrong and the sentence works at a comical level. The grammar in your headline, however, is atrocious. …

Newspaper headlines have a specific grammar with elliptical forms and omissions of articles, auxiliaries, etc. In the given headline we have the infinitive used in the function of the predicate. …

Here are some relevant portions that might help from an educational article about writing headlines: http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Courses/ResourcesForCourses/WritingHeadlines.html What is a headline … A headline is an abstract sentence Usually it is only five to ten words It is a complete thought Grammar Don't use the articles a, an and the. They waste space unnecessarily. …

Headlines often break the normal rules of English grammar in order to be more concise. …

The context of this sentence is a headline or title, which follow different rules to normal English, and it works perfectly well for that. … Here's an interesting dissertation on the grammar of headlines showing some of the differences. …

Headlinese: On the grammar of English front page headlines. Malmö: CWK Gleerup.) See also this Wikipedia page. …