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BL
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697809
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b519998
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Tufte, Virginia.
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| Title & Author
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Artful sentences : : syntax as style /\ Virginia Tufte
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| Publication Statement
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Cheshire, Conn. :: Graphics Press LLC,, ©2006
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308 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0961392185
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: 9780961392185
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| Notes
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" ... grows out of my 1971 book, Grammar as style."--Acknowledgments
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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"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
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Authorship.
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Creative writing.
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English language-- Rhetoric.
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English language-- Sentences.
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English language-- Style.
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| LC Classification
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PE1421.T78 2006
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PE1421.T78 2006
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Tufte, Virginia.
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| Parallel Title
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Syntax as style
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