中国大学MOOC: English news headlines are usually multi-deck, while Chinese news headlines are often single-deck.
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- 中国大学MOOC: English headlines are usually a skeleton of the news, keeping only the most essential information, while Chinese headlines tend to be a mini-story in capsule form.
- 中国大学MOOC: In English news headlines, function words such as articles, linking verbs, auxiliary verbs and conjunctions are often omitted.
- 中国大学MOOC: Three kinds of verb tenses are frequently used in English news headlines: present tense, future tense and present perfect tense.
- The use of midget words and abbreviations can help to make news headlines shorter.
- 中国大学MOOC: What kind of news is often the hard news?