By Virginia Tufte
ISBN-10: 0030796156
ISBN-13: 9780030796159
From the preface: "Grammar as kind is a research of grammatical styles and how they paintings within the arms of up to date specialist writers. it's addressed to a person attracted to stylistic idea and perform. i am hoping it is going to locate readers between academics and potential lecturers of English; scholars of composition, inventive writing, grammar, literature, stylistics, and literary feedback; and writers outdoor the study room who're attracted to learning specialist techniques.
Each bankruptcy, other than the 1st, concentrates on an important syntactic constitution or idea and considers its stylistic position in sentences from twentiethcentury fiction and nonfiction. In all, the ebook comprises fifteen significant grammatical issues and greater than one thousand samples of recent prose."
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He settled himself at an outdoor table that commanded a good view of the courtyard and of the road beyond it. , he waited. —Robert Sheckley, Mindswap, p. 132. Or, an abrupt conclusion: He stood in the rain, unable to move, not knowing if the lovers were real or simply creations of the lightning and when it stopped, they stopped; unless of course he was dreaming one of those dreams from which he would awaken in that pain which is also sharpest pleasure, having loved in sleep. But the cold rain was real; and so was the sudden soft moan from the poolhouse.
John Updike, "The Alligators " dinger Stories, p. 10. The notion titillated him. —Leslie Fiedler, The Last Jew in America, p. 71. In the next group of samples, the focus shifts to the noun phrase that is the direct object, in final position: Some men were chewing their fingernails. —Lin Yutang, The Flight of the Innocents, p. 300. Matter dominates Mind. —Jacques Barzun, Classic, Romantic and Modern, p. 108. His mind bred vermin. —James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p. 234. Marlborough swallowed the bait.
He cried out loud. He swore at the top of his voice. He fired off a gun and made the people listen. He roared and he boasted and made himself known. He blew back into the wind and stamped on the rolling earth and swore up and down he could make it all stop with his invention. He got up in the teeth of the storm and made a loud speech which everybody heard. —Thomas Merton, The Behavior of Titans, p. 31. Now this fatman had been brought up on oats and meat and his name was secret. His father was a grocer and his mother was a butcher.
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