Broadcast News

At one time or another, Americans have experienced shortages of oil, water, rubber, cereals, sugar, butter, cheese, meat and vaccines against influenza. The latest shortage may be in a part of speech. News broadcast media seem to have adopted the word rationing.
The verbs were once the stock in exchange for new media-oriented action. Today, however, many news and radio are full of sentence fragments lack verbs, posing penalties.
In the evening newscast, an anchor said:

"The president issued his budget proposal today. And on the block, the projects against floods and management of forest fires in California."

None of these statements is a complete sentence. The first contains a word that looks like a verb, but it is not, it is a gerund. This second fragment on the financial "block" lacks a verb of any kind.
To form a sentence, a phrase must contain at least one subject and a verb, and must be able to stand independently.
The verb is an essential component of a sentence he can be a sentence by itself. Stop! Hurry! Listen! Jump! These are imperative sentences, pleading or order someone to take action. In such sentences, the subject "you" is heard, a concept that Dick and Jane "readers back to 1930s taught." Look, Dick. Look, Jane. See Sally. See Silly Sally ".

Not all verbs can be independent, however. The word "flow", for example, is meaningless without an accompanying name - a topic. What is RSS? Perhaps the River. That makes sense.
Similarly, a name can not operate without a word of support. Television. What is it? Watch TV? The dust from the TV? Buy a TV? To turn off the TV? The verb indicates what you want to do with television.

In the history of a series of fires in Southern California, an anchor of television news said:
"This is only the second week of May, yet Cal Fire has responded to three major wildfires in our state - a Los Angeles County, one in San Bernardino County, and later in County Tehama. All these fires, but now 100 percent contained. "
This closing statement is not a punishment, because it lacks a verb. It consists only of a subject ("the fires") and a sentence in brackets (although now 100 percent contained "). This fragment appears to be leading to a final statement. A perceptive viewer might have expected something like "All these fires, but now 100 percent contained, may continue simmering for 48 hours or more."
Why, then, does the presenter exclude a verb? He could not save time, because it could turn her into a sentence fragment by attaching a one syllable word "shall." All these fires, however, are now 100 percent contained. And if he really could not spare half a second to add "are", he could remove a single syllable word - the preposition "of" - that is superfluous in the context of the sentence. The result: All these fires, however, are now 100 percent contained.
Gerunds broadcasters commonly mistake for verbs, resulting in sentence fragments. Examples of this blunder recurring we have heard on 13 of the 26 stations and networks that we watched during the last weeks.

• Harvard Business Publishing Launches New Website for Leadership Development Professionals who are looking to interactive learning experiences and information on talent management and strategy. "
  NO. Harvard Business Publishing has launched a website.
  
• "Businessman racing mogul Roger Penske finally discuss in public all the problems surrounding Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Of course, Roger Penske.