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rice07
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 Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:16 am Post subject: headline |
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Hi
I find it is intriguing to figure out some of the headlines in newspaper, though, sometimes, some of them can be very difficult to understand. Take, EU cofident banks can weather financial crisis, for instance.
I quess, this example, might be a noun, EU, with an identifing relative clause(its reduced form= confident: an adjective participle phrase) referring to EU, and a that clause served as a complement to complete the meaning. Therefore its original form should be " EU that / who is confident that banks can weather financial crisis". English, what fun! |
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: headline |
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| rice07 wrote: |
EU cofident banks can weather financial crisis, for instance.
I quess, this example, might be a noun, EU, with an identifing relative clause(its reduced form= confident: an adjective participle phrase) referring to EU, and a that clause served as a complement to complete the meaning. Therefore its original form should be " EU that / who is confident that banks can weather financial crisis". English, what fun! |
Close. As you may have noticed, in newspaper headlines, often small words are omitted to save space and keep you focused on the big ideas. In this case, I would read the headline as:
The EU is confident that banks can weather this/a financial crisis.
So confident would be a predicate adjective. banks can weather... is an adverbial clause modifying confident (answers the question: confident how?)
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rice07
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:24 am Post subject: |
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Hi Teacher Bob.S
A miss is as good as a mile. What you've done for me, I mean, in particular corrections to my posts, always touches me a lot. I'm more aware of English under your tutelage. Many thanks!     
Sincerely
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