how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read Landon, Brooks. creator text nyu New York, New York Plume/Penguin Group 2013 monographic eng

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xv, 267 p. ; 21 cm 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. Brooks Landon. "A Plume book." Includes index. English language Sentences Study and Teaching English language Rhetoric Study and Teaching Inglés Retórica Arte de escribir PE 1441 L259b 2013 808/.042 9780452298606 2012051011 DLC 130128 20230410130502.0 117893 eng