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Past participle homophones

April 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A headline from the Guardian reads: Rubber banned: Keep Britain Tidy wages war on Royal Mail elastic bands (read article here).

The exploitation of homophones for play-on-word newspaper headlines is common practice. In this case, one of the words is a regular -ed past participle (banned) and that makes it extra clever. Here are other examples […]

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Tags: Grammar · Newspapers · Past participle