I’m not sure, but I just might pass up a story if the heading had a grammatical error. If you can’t take care of the heading, which is supposed to hook the reader, how good is what is written below? But then, the heading might have been composed by someone else…
Correct the errors in these headlines (Is there a heading editor?)
[1] More Chaos, Less movies at IFFI
[2] Bevan Bid’s Goodbye
[3] The Cannon, the site, got it’s 100,000th hit.
[4] Rally to focus disables problems
[5] First Lady’s Dress Same as Others!
[6] Tonights’ Simpsons Episode
[7] All Eyes on Kennedy in Court Abortion Debate
[8] Congress plans stir against prise rise
[9] New Mammal Mouse Found (tricky one, this!)
[10] Minor fire in McDonald outlet
Do you want to go through the grammar lessons in the previous posts?
February 4, 2007
Grammar – 27 Back to the Headline Quiz
Amitabh & Shah Rukh Khan – should we compare? Update
This will not be the last word on the subject from the parties concerned. Hey, it brings in ratings-worthy eyeballs, so we’ll stretch it as long as we can! This is the sequel (threequel?) to the spat about who does KBC better. Agencies report:
“Let’s see what happens to him after 35 years,” was mega star Amitabh Bachchan’s reply to Bollywood Badshah Shahrukh Khan’s provocative posers that his time was over and he was old.
“Whatever he says is correct. I am old and he is young and I agree that he is smart and sexy,” the Big B said. For good effect, he added that he was “sexy Sam,” the character he had portrayed in the hit film “Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna”.
But Bachchan accepted that Khan was the “reigning king of Bollywood”.
Khan, who recently replaced Bachchan as host of the hit TV game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati” had said, “I am sexy, smart and young, that was his century, this is mine.” While the two Bollywood biggies appeared to be engaged in a clash of Titans, Bachchan told Times Now channel that all the hype about the competition between them was just a media creation.
“It makes good copy so you people keep on writing about it in beautiful words,” he said.
Khan, who is said to be trying to step into the Big B’s shoes with projects like “Kaun Banega Crorepati” and the remake of “Don”, had said, “I have never imitated anyone. I am quite good at what I do.” Bachchan recently said he wanted to do more good work so that people could imitate him.
This will get to a point where the reporters will have some other story to follow. The story will go into cold storage or if the stars want a little more mileage off it, might agree to a mega patch-up. Wait and watch.
I asked my daughter who was better. “Ok, I’ll tell you this,” she said. “For the two years Big B was doing the show, I didn’t watch it at all. The day I got to know SRK’s KBC would be telecast here, I went out and bought myself a dish TV connection.”
