Why not Present Participle here?

[duc]

Hello,
I have just read an article :''New plastic-bags standards released in China'' ,and there is a sentence with a strange construction:''Enterprises FAIL to conform to standards will face severe punishment.'' I think the word FAIL should be changed to FAILING.Please give your ideas about that!
Thanks in advance!!!!
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[Haihao]

FAIL is a verb, emphasized by capitalization, and all right.

[Yankee]

Hi duc

You're right. Something is missing in that sentence. There are two easy ways to repair it. One way is to use 'failing' (your suggestion):
- Enterprises failing to conform to standards will face severe punishment.

OR you can add a relative pronoun ('that' or possibly 'which'):
- Enterprises that fail to conform to standards will face severe punishment.
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Haihao]

Hi Amy,

Very nice to see you again!

I have a feeling too that something is missing in both 'sentences'. But I also feel both of them are like titles of some news reports. If so, is it possible not to follow the strict grammatical rules?

Haihao

[Yankee]

Hi Haihao

I understood Duc's post to mean that the first example he gave was a headline, and the second example was a sentence from the article. In addition, Duc's second example does not look like a headline to me. Simply omitting an -ing ending from an otherwise fairly complex sentence is not the way a headline is typically made. I can imagine this as a headline version of Duc's second sentence, for example:
Severe Punishment for Noncompliance
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Haihao]

Thank you so much again, Amy.

Haihao