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Both are valid, it’s journalistic headline abbreviation. It can be read as: > [the] shutdown [was] to make sure Or with your correction it would be read as:
by throwaway378037 5y ago
Both are valid, it’s journalistic headline abbreviation. It can be read as:
> [the] shutdown [was] to make sure
Or with your correction it would be read as:
> [it was] shut down to make sure
So it’s not incorrect in the source article, it is just using the noun shutdown, rather than the verb to shut down.
- eps 5y agoYou are being way too generous. Your first expansion is a very big stretch.
- throwaway378037 5y agoPerhaps, though I’m not arguing that it was a good headline. My point was only that it is a valid headline, as long as you understand that shutdown is the noun.