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This paper investigates the omission of articles in newspaper headlines. A sample of 35 news headlines is going to be collected randomly from 5 of the most trusted, bestselling newspapers in the world, The Guardian, The wall street journal, The new york times, The Washington post and The Times. 7 headlines from each newspaper from the 21/ 12 / 2019 issue, it is going to be analyzed. The analysis proves that newspaper headlines rarely use articles. The Guardian used the biggest number of the articles in comparison with the other newspapers however, the number remains very small. On the other The Wall Street Journal which is the bestselling newspaper in America, did not use any articles in the collected samples. This result proves that article omission in newspaper headlines among other grammatical errors is a good selling strategy. Also this paper come up with other results, that headlines of breaking news use less articles in comparison with headlines of opinion, review and outlook reports, and when breaking news uses articles sometimes it is either for emphasizing, sarcasm or in slogans.
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