The art of styling sentences 20 patterns for success
Book - 2012
"Conventions of writing style change in subtle ways with passing years--a fact that prompts the need for periodic revisions of books like this one. The authors review the fundamentals of good sentence structure and then go on to describe twenty basic sentence patterns that encompass virtually every effective way of writing sentences in English. They also draw on passages by current prominent writers, using these examples to show how varying rhythm and sentence patterns can result in elegant writing styles that keep their readers interested. Exercises with answers and explanations appear throughout the text"--
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- Published
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Hauppauge, N.Y. :
Barron's Educational Series
2012.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- 5th ed
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 158 p. ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9780764147838
- Preface
- Introduction
- Suggestions for the Instructor
- Suggestions for teaching Chapter 1
- Suggestions for teaching Chapter 2-the patterns
- Suggestions for the Student
- How to get the most from this book
- Marginalia: to encourage deliberate craftsmanship
- A paragraph analyzing a simile in poetry
- A paragraph defining a term
- 1. The Sentence
- What exactly is a sentence?
- Some helpful references
- 2. The Twenty Patterns
- Now let's make sentences grow ...
- Compound constructions
- Pattern 1. Compound sentence with semicolon and no conjunction
- Pattern 1a. Compound sentence with conjunctive adverb (connector)
- Pattern 1b. Compound sentence with coordinating conjunction (also connector)
- Pattern 1c. Compound sentence with two or more semicolons
- Pattern 2. Compound sentence with elliptical construction
- Pattern 3. Compound sentence with explanatory statement
- Sentences with series
- Pattern 4. A series without a conjunction
- Pattern 4a. A series with a variation
- Pattern 5. A series of balanced pairs
- Pattern 6. An introductory series of appositives
- Pattern 7. An internal series of appositives or modifiers
- Pattern 7a. A variation: a single appositive or a pair
- Pattern 8. Dependent clauses in a pair or in a series
- Repetitions
- Pattern 9. Repetition of a key term
- Pattern 9a. A variation: same word repeated in parallel structure
- Pattern 10. Emphatic appositive at end, after a colon
- Pattern 10a. A variation: appositive after a dash
- Modifiers
- Pattern 11. Interrupting modifier between S and V
- Pattern 11a. A full sentence as interrupting modifier
- Pattern 12. Introductory or concluding participles
- Pattern 13. A single modifier out of place for emphasis
- Inversions
- Pattern 14. Prepositional phrase before S and V
- Pattern 15. Object or complement before S and V
- Pattern 15a. Complete inversion of normal pattern
- An assortment of patterns
- Pattern 16. Paired constructions
- Pattern 16a. A paired construction for contrast only
- Pattern 17. Dependent clause as subject or object or complement
- Pattern 18. Absolute construction anywhere in sentence
- Pattern 19. The short, simple sentence for relief or dramatic effect
- Pattern 19a. A short question for dramatic effect
- Pattern 20. The deliberate fragment
- 3. Sentences Grow
- Style
- Combining the patterns-ten ways
- Expanding sentences
- Myths about coordinators
- A sentence with special emphasis: the periodic sentence
- 4. Figurative Language in Sentences
- Figures of speech
- Allusion
- Analogy
- Hyperbole and understatement
- Irony
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Simile
- Further reading
- 5. The Twenty Patterns-In Print
- "Tough Country," from C. L. Sonnichsen's Tularosa
- Excerpt from Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days
- "Two Ways of Seeing a River," Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Appendix
- Punctuation
- Suggested review questions
- Miscellaneous questions
- Index