Building great sentences : how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read /
Landon, Brooks.
Building great sentences : how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read / Brooks Landon. - New York, New York : Plume/Penguin Group, 2013. - xv, 267 p. ; 21 cm
"A Plume book." Includes index.
A sequence of words -- Grammar and rhetoric -- The primacy of propositions -- How senteces grow -- The rhythm og cumulative syntax -- Coordinate, subordinate, and mixed cumulative patterns -- Cumulative tweaks and tighten-ups -- Prompts of comparison and speculation -- The riddle of prose rhythm -- Suspensive syntax : the rhythm of delay -- Degrees of suspensiveness, significance of surprise -- Balanced sentences and balanced forms -- The rhythm of threes -- Long sentences and master sentences -- Sentences as keys to the gift of style.
9780452298606
2012051011
English language--Sentences--Study and Teaching.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and Teaching.
Inglés--Retórica.
Arte de escribir.
PE 1441 / L259b 2013
808/.042
Building great sentences : how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read / Brooks Landon. - New York, New York : Plume/Penguin Group, 2013. - xv, 267 p. ; 21 cm
"A Plume book." Includes index.
A sequence of words -- Grammar and rhetoric -- The primacy of propositions -- How senteces grow -- The rhythm og cumulative syntax -- Coordinate, subordinate, and mixed cumulative patterns -- Cumulative tweaks and tighten-ups -- Prompts of comparison and speculation -- The riddle of prose rhythm -- Suspensive syntax : the rhythm of delay -- Degrees of suspensiveness, significance of surprise -- Balanced sentences and balanced forms -- The rhythm of threes -- Long sentences and master sentences -- Sentences as keys to the gift of style.
9780452298606
2012051011
English language--Sentences--Study and Teaching.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and Teaching.
Inglés--Retórica.
Arte de escribir.
PE 1441 / L259b 2013
808/.042