Grammar and syntax: Headlines

Grammar and syntax: Headlines

Millie Mackintosh has a honeymoon smugathon , plus the couples cheesiest snaps;

Millie Mackintosh stars in Made in Chelsea but became more famous when she started going out with singer Professor Green. This headline uses her name; ‘Millie Mackintosh’ (noun) which straight away catches the eye of people who are fans of the reality TV show; Made In Chelsea. In this case would most likely target young people however both genders who enjoy the show. A lot of young girls who look up to Millie and see her name as a headline will automically be encouraged to start reading about the latest news about her honeymoon, and possibly a few male fans. For people who know Millie Mackintosh but not so much about the marriage, the next word (proper noun) which is perfect for getting readers intrigued is ‘Honeymoon.’ This is influential, because people might be interested as to whom she has recently got married to.

 

Miley Cyrus’ dad Billy Ray has his say on her new image: “She's evolving as an artist”

This headline from the magazine; ‘Heat’ is similar to our previous headline in a way that it uses the stars name (noun) to start off the headline. Young girls who knew Miley as the clean cut teen Disney star would most likely be interested to find out more on how Miley’s fans and relatives are going about the huge change with Miley’s fame. These two simple nouns; ‘Miley’ and ‘Cyrus’ will get lots of people wanting to find out more about how her life is dramtically changing. We can already start to see a pattern with only two headlines. They both indicate the newspaper headlines only need a well known star’s name for readers curiosity.

 

Bieber’s spit hits the fans”

Once again we have another celebrity headline starting with a name; ‘Bieber’ which would straight away target young girls who are big fans of Justin Bieber. However in this headline it ends with the word; ‘fans’ (noun) when the words Bieber and fans are in the same sentence today we assume it will either be an article on how Justin Biebers fans are rising or maybe dropping after the teen starts to go off the rails and forgets to treat his fans with respect, even after all the support they’ve given him. His fans are also more likely to show interest with the word ‘fan’ in the headline as they are a fan themselves. The word spit (noun) describes a vile action which Bieber did which doesn’t come to much as a surprise anymore, as we all know what the teen is now capable of which could make anybody intriguing for people to read what the troubled teen has been up to.