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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Headline

The bear is on a revenge mission ( If I removed "is", does this headline sounds better?
  

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Anonymous The bear is on a revenge mission The previous words are not a headline; they are a sentence lacking a period at the end. ( If I removed "is", does this headline sound better? If you remove "is", you are left with a noun phrase, which could be a headline.

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Anonymous The bear is on a revenge mission The previous words are not a headline; they are a sentence lacking a period at the end. ( If I removed "is", does this headline sound better? If you remove "is", you are left with a noun phrase, which could be a headline.
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Headlines often don't use articles.
Bear on Revenge Mission

This seems like a significant anthropomoric characterization.