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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Suggestions for the Instructor | |
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| Suggestions for teaching Chapter 1 | |
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| Suggestions for teaching Chapter 2-the patterns | |
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| Suggestions for the Student | |
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| How to get the most from this book | |
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| Marginalia: to encourage deliberate craftsmanship | |
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| A paragraph analyzing a simile in poetry | |
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| A paragraph defining a term | |
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| The Sentence | |
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| What exactly is a sentence? | |
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| Some helpful references | |
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| The Twenty Patterns | |
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| Now let's make sentences grow … | |
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| Compound constructions | |
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| Compound sentence with semicolon and no conjunction | |
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| Compound sentence with conjunctive adverb (connector) | |
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| Compound sentence with coordinating conjunction (also connector) | |
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| Compound sentence with two or more semicolons | |
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| Compound sentence with elliptical construction | |
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| Compound sentence with explanatory statement | |
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| Sentences with series | |
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| A series without a conjunction | |
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| A series with a variation | |
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| A series of balanced pairs | |
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| An introductory series of appositives | |
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| An internal series of appositives or modifiers | |
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| A variation: a single appositive or a pair | |
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| Dependent clauses in a pair or in a series | |
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| Repetitions | |
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| Repetition of a key term | |
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| A variation: same word repeated in parallel structure | |
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| Emphatic appositive at end, after a colon | |
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| A variation: appositive after a dash | |
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| Modifiers | |
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| Interrupting modifier between S and V | |
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| A full sentence as interrupting modifier | |
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| Introductory or concluding participles | |
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| A single modifier out of place for emphasis | |
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| Inversions | |
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| Prepositional phrase before S and V | |
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| Object or complement before S and V | |
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| Complete inversion of normal pattern | |
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| An assortment of patterns | |
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| Paired constructions | |
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| A paired construction for contrast only | |
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| Dependent clause as subject or object or complement | |
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| Absolute construction anywhere in sentence | |
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| The short, simple sentence for relief or dramatic effect | |
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| A short question for dramatic effect | |
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| The deliberate fragment | |
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| Sentences Grow | |
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| Style | |
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| Combining the patterns-ten ways | |
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| Expanding sentences | |
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| Myths about coordinators | |
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| A sentence with special emphasis: the periodic sentence | |
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| Figurative Language in Sentences | |
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| Figures of speech | |
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| Allusion | |
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| Analogy | |
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| Hyperbole and understatement | |
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| Irony | |
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| Metaphor | |
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| Personification | |
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| Simile | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Twenty Patterns-In Print | |
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| "Tough Country," from C. L. Sonnichsen's Tularosa | |
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| Excerpt from Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days | |
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| "Two Ways of Seeing a River," Mark Twain (1835-1910) | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Suggested review questions | |
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| Miscellaneous questions | |
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| Index | |