TY - BOOK AU - Landon,Brooks TI - Building great sentences: how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read SN - 9780452298606 AV - PE 1441 L259b 2013 U1 - 808/.042 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, New York PB - Plume/Penguin Group KW - English language KW - Sentences KW - Study and Teaching KW - Rhetoric KW - Inglés KW - Retórica KW - Arte de escribir N1 - "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 ER -