headteachers are to be urged hello may friend.. I write this note for asking about the using tenses in the my title ''headteachers are to be urge''. ... last time my lecturer ask me finding an artikel

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headteachers are to be urged hello may friend.. I write this note for asking about the using tenses in the my title ''headteachers are to be urge''. ... last time my lecturer ask me finding an artikel to learnt and to researched. I got an articel from http://www.independent.co.uk, that is about my title note. When I read this title, I felt confuse on the sentence, you know what.. this senntence contained ''to'' word after to be ''are '' location.. I felt curious about it because as I know this is just passive.. but there is ''to'' word in it. I have asked it to my lecturer, but unhappily he also didn't understant. I still hard think until now even that problem has been happend before... if you know it correctly.. please drop ur comment here. I will wait for ur coming here:).

Aug 1, 2015 3:08 PM

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thank's alot ms.kelsey :)

August 1, 2015

I'm not sure if I can explain it exactly, but "headteachers are to be urged" could mean "headteachers are going to be urged (to do something)". It might be confusing because it is a headline and not a full sentence. Basically, it is like they have left out the word "going" in "headteachers are going to be urged". Alternatively, it could also mean "headteachers must be urged" or "headteachers should be urged". In this case, by leaving out "going" they have made it sound more like a command, as if saying that someone or something must take action and urge the headteachers. This is because it does not say that it is already "going" to happen, which implies that it must be made to happen. Sorry this is not a very good explanation, but I hope it helps your understanding!

August 1, 2015

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