Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style"In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing."--Publisher's description. |
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action adjectival adjectives and adverbs adverbs American Library Signet appositive base clause be-pattern Bernard Malamud chapter cohesion commas conjunctions contrast create D. H. Lawrence dark dependent clauses described direct object Doris Lessing E. M. Forster effect emphasis English essays example eyes feel fiction fragments free modifiers Garden gerund grammatical Harcourt Brace human idea infinitive intransitive inversion italicized J. D. Salinger James Joyce John Steinbeck John Updike kind left branches looked main clause mid-branching sentence night nominative absolute nonfiction noun phrase novel pair paragraph parallelism passive past participle patterns person preceding prepositional phrases present participles professional writers pronouns prose punctuation Random House reader repetition rhythm Scott Fitzgerald sense sentence openers serve short sentences sometimes story structure style syntactic syntax tence thing tion transitive University Press verb phrases verbal Virginia Woolf William Golding women words wysiwyg wysiwyg clause York