(1)e.g. Teen Killer Was Angry Young Man.
(2)e.g. China Demands U.S. Stop ?Interfering? on Human Rights (3)e.g. Bush Unveils A ?Can Do? Budget.
6.3 To save pages,abbreviations and acronyms are used. 6.3.1.Abbreviations
The abbreviations often read in headlines are like follows : Afr.-Africa app.-appendix
Amt.-amount appox.-approximately 6.3.2.Acronyms
“Acronyms are the words formed from the initial letters of a group of words. They can save space and beautify the headlines in picturesque disorder.”[13] p27 Acronyms can be divided into three types:
(ⅰ)Names of agents or organizations such as CPPCC(The Chinese people?s political consultative conference)and PLO ,WTO…
(ⅱ) Names of something that we use very often such as AIDS,UFO, PC…
(ⅲ)Nouns for careers,positions or credits like PM (prime minister), MP(member of parliament), GM(general manager), PA(personal assistant).
6.4 Using nouns,participles and short adjective to embellish words to replace long adjective or clauses.
(1)e.g. Poison Gas Fear Haunts City
(A fear of poison gas is haunting the people in a certain city.) (2)e.g. 3 Held Over College Horror Crash
(3 people are being detained by the police concerning a horrifying crash at a college.) 6.5 Use of numbers but without of the following nouns. (1)e.g. 41 Die as School Collapses
(41 students die as school collapses) (2)e.g. Muller charged in fondling of boy,14
( Muller was charged in fondling of a boy of 14 years old.) 7.Conclusion
Above all, in a fast changing world, news media is the best channel of knowing every field including politics, economics, science, culture, and society. To read English news is the best way to get in touch