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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 | |