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Tufte, Virginia

Artful sentences : syntax as style / Virginia Tufte - 308 pages : 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.



ISBN: 9780961392185

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Style.
English language -- Sentences.
Creative writing.
Authorship.
Syntax.

Dewey Class. No.: 425