Bibliograph

Artful sentences, syntax as style, Virginia Tufte

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Artful sentences, syntax as style, Virginia Tufte

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Artful sentences

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

69241091

Responsibility statement

Virginia Tufte

Sub title

syntax as style

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

Short sentences -- Noun phrases -- Verb phrases -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Prepositions -- Conjunctions and coordination -- Dependent clauses -- Sentence openers and inversion -- Free modifiers : branching sentences -- The appositive -- Interrogative, imperative, exclamatory -- Parallelism -- Cohesion -- Syntactic symbolism

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Syntax as style

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