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Building great sentences : how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read / Brooks Landon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : Plume/Penguin Group, 2013.Description: xv, 267 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780452298606
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.042
LOC classification:
  • PE 1441 L259b 2013
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PE 1441 L259b 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000111223

"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.

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