000			02171nam a22001577a 4500
020			_a978-0961392185
100			_aTufte, Virginia
245			_aArtful sentences: syntax as style
260			_aUSA _bGraphics press _c2010
300			_a308p. _b22cm ;Pbk
500			_a$16.00 Received from PGP office.
505			_a1. Short sentences 2. Noun phrases 3. Verb phrases adjectives and adverbs 4. Adjectives and Adverbs 5. Prepositions 6. Conjunctions and coordination 7. Dependent clauses 8. Sentence openers and inversion 9. Free modifiers: branching sentences 10. The appositive 11. Interrogative, imperative, exclamatory 12. Parallelism 13. Cohesion 14. Syntactic symbolism Bibliography Index of terms
520			_aIn Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte presents — and comments on — more than a thousand excellent sentences chosen from the works of authors in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The sentences come from an extensive search to identify some of the ways professional writers use the generous resources of the English language. The book displays the sentences in fourteen chapters, each one organized around a syntactic concept-short sentences, noun phrases, verb phrases, appositives, parallelism, for example. It thus provides a systematic, comprehensive range of models for aspiring writers. Artful Sentences grows out of one of Virginia Tufte's earlier books, Grammar as Style. Fresh examples from fiction and nonfiction bring new insights into the ways syntactic patterns work. Because the examples are such a pleasure, readers may be tempted to skip everything else, but the comments are inviting also, calling attention to techniques that are useful to writers of almost any type of fiction or nonfiction. Both new and experienced writers will find inspiration: the book is not about "errors" but about successes. If you are already a good writer, Artful Sentences can help you to become excellent. To write is to bring structure to ideas, information, feelings. Here are many creative strategies, in a unique book that is informed, affirming, lively, and of lasting value.
650			_aEnglish -Grammar
942			_cBK
999			_c103339 _d103339