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fw
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject: Natural English?(5) |
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Hello everyone.
�Spectacle opens Turin Olympics� was the headline for an article that I read this morning about the opening ceremony of the Turin Olympics. Is this headline grammatically correct and natural English? Isn�t the preposition �at� or something needed after the word �opens�?
Best regards,
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lotus
Joined: 25 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Hi fw,
Actually, the headline is saying:
The spectacle (spectacular ceremony) opens the Turin Olympics.
The spectacle is acting as the introductory event opening the Turin Olympics.
Headlines are often truncated (some words taken out).
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