I saw the sentence like 'The president to agree with the opinion.'in the news paper. I can understand the meaning of the 'to' in the sentence. Maybe I think that 'to' means 'will'. Am I right? If I am wrong, What is the right meaning of 'to' in the sentence? Please, tell me.
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See Damkerng T answer here http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/17672/differences-in-meaning-when-the-verb-tense-changes-headlines – Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini Jan 23 '17 at 13:19
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Newspaper headlines by their very nature are designed to grab as much attention as possible, in the least possible space, and as such, almost have a grammar of their own.
One example of this is the use of the infinitive form of the verb to refer to future events - e.g.
Parliament to decide new policy tomorrow.
Germany to take in 5000 more refugees.
President to visit France for further talks.
Using the infinitive in this manner, a future time is not always necessary to demonstrate the future tense in headlines.
In your example:
The president to agree with the opinion.
...simply means that the president will agree with this opinion, sometime in the future.
On a related note, I'm presuming your example is one you made up for the purposes of the question, as it doesn't seem to be as concise as one would expect form a headline. President to agree with reforms or similar would be more realistic.
mike
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