Artful sentences : syntax as style

In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing. ". . . Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style , generally recognized as the best study of sentence style."--Brooks Landon, University of Iowa, in Building Useful Sentences, page 122. In Artful Sentences: Syntax As Style,virginia Tufte Shows How Standard Sentence Patterns And Forms Contribute To Meaning And Art In More Than A Thousand Wonderful Sentences From The Twentieth And Twenty-first Centuries. The Book Has Special Interest For Aspiring Writers, Students Of Literature And Language, And Anyone Who Finds Joy In Reading And Writing. --publisher's Description. 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. Virginia Tuft. ... Grows Out Of My 1971 Book, Grammar As Style. -- Acknowledgments. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [275]-299) And Index. In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style ,Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing. ". . . Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, generally recognized as the best study of sentence style." Brooks Landon, University of Iowa, in Building Useful Sentences, page 122. "... Neither a composition handbook nor a history of rhetoric nor an exposition of other critics' syntactic theories, Tufte's book lays out the author's own very special understanding of how sentences work and what they can do. Tufte's knowledge of literature is so far-reaching that her examples are always apposite and surprising. And her recognition that syntax is itself symbolic makes this a pivotal book for all who write. ..." -- Marjorie Perloff (From the back cover.) "In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing."--Publisher's description Acknowledgments 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 Bibliography--Index of Authors and Editions Quoted Index of Terms