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Today I read in Wall Street Hournal next title:

Wells Fargo to Pay States About $575 Million to Settle Customer Harm Claims

Why do they use “to” after Wells Fargo? Was there omitted something?

Vladkor
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    "to" is an infinitive marker here, not a preposition. "To" when used in headlines is comparable to "will", that is, it refers to a future event. – Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini Dec 30 '18 at 06:57
  • @user178049 Thus, can we omit “to” or it’s a strict rule? – Vladkor Dec 30 '18 at 08:24
  • It's not really a rule. It's just a writing style, called [headlinese](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese). You don't omit "to", but you can replace it with "will". – Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini Dec 30 '18 at 08:27
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    ... the verb "be" is ellipted. In full it would be "Wells Fargo **Are** to Pay States About $575 Million to Settle Customer Harm Claims – BillJ Dec 30 '18 at 10:51

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