TY - BOOK AU - Casagrande,June TI - It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences : : a writer's guide to crafting killer sentences SN - 9781580087407 AV - PE 1441 C334i 2010 U1 - 808/.042076 PY - 2010/// CY - Berkeley [Calif.] PB - Ten Speed Press KW - English language KW - Sentences KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Paragraphs KW - Rhetoric KW - Inglés KW - Oraciones KW - Problemas, ejercicios, etc KW - Composición y ejercicios KW - Párrafos KW - Retórica N1 - Includes index; The sentence : the writer's most important tool Who cares? Making sentences meaningful to your reader Conjunctions that kill : subordination Movable objects : understanding phrases and clauses Size matters : short versus long sentences Words gone wild : sentences that say nothing, or worse Words gone mild : choosing specific words over vague ones A frequently overstated case : the truth about adverbs Are your relatives essential? Relative clauses Antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers : prepositional phrases Dangler danger : participles and other danglers The writing was ignored by the reader : passives You will have been conjugating : other matters of tense The being and the doing are the killing of your writing : nominalizations The the : not-so-definite definite articles The writer and his father lamented his ineptitude : unclear antecedents To know them is to hating them : faulty and funky parallels Taking the punk out of punctuation : the problem with semicolons and parentheses You don't say : descriptive quotation attributions Trimming the fat : expressions that weigh down your sentences The major overhaul : streamlining even the most problematic sentences On breaking the 'rules" : knowing when to can the canons N2 - "This humorous writing book from grammar columnist June Casagrande focuses on the sentence as the unit of meaning in writing, showing writing students and professional writers alike how to craft bold, effective, reader-serving sentences"--Provided by publisher UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2009040410-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2009040410-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2009040410-s.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2009040410-t.html ER -