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Originally Posted by Wolvendancer
"Brett Favre to announce retirement today."
"To" is not a verb. Brett Favre will announce, perhaps, or perhaps you could find an active verb that isn't a form of be.
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I disagree here... the convention for headlines defies regular grammar, and alows them to truncate and eliminate words that are easily understood. Here, I have no problem with that particular convention -- it's clear what they mean in any reasonable context... they obviously mean "is prepared to announce" or "is scheduled to announce" or something of the sort.