Artful sentences : syntax as style /

Artful sentences : syntax as style /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tufte, Virginia.
Imprint:	Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press LLC, ©2006.
Description:	308 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English language -- Rhetoric. English language -- Style. English language -- Sentences. Creative writing. Authorship. Authorship. Creative writing. English language -- Rhetoric. English language -- Sentences. English language -- Style.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11993635

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Varying Form of Title:	Syntax as style
Other uniform titles:	Tufte, Virginia. Grammar as style.
ISBN:	9780961392185 0961392185
Notes:	" ... grows out of my 1971 book, Grammar as style."--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index.
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.
Other form:	Online version: Tufte, Virginia. Artful sentences. Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press LLC, ©2006
Standard no.:	9780961392185

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.