Investigating the Characteristics of Newspapers Headlines to Pinpoint the Grammatical Features Versus Conventional Grammar

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the grammatical features of newspaper headlines versus conventional grammar, as it also aims to provide readers with grammatical illustration about how tenses are formulated in Newspapers' Headlines, and this will be done through making comparison between the constructions of tenses in headlines versus the conventional ones. The samples used in this study were collected from the daily newspapers of Sudan Vision and Sudan Tribune (electronic version).The researcher used the qualitative comparative method in order to find out answers for the questions of the study. The study found out that the successful circulation of the newspapers depends on attractive and summarized headlines that push passers-by into becoming readers and more further buying the target newspapers itself. These headlines are written in away that differs from the conventional ones, particularly on the level of tenses structures, that cause ambiguity and uncertainty to readers. The study recommends readers to focus on the event of what headline is about, and skip the way that it has been formulated and get the conventional formulation by reading details below the target headline where texts are written in an ordinary language.