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ISBN 10: 158008740X
ISBN 13: 978-1580087407
Author: June Casagrande
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Sentence: The Writer's Most Important Tool 1
Chapter 1 Who Cares? Making Sentences Meaningful to Your Reader 7
Chapter 2 Conjunctions that Kill: Subordination 15
Chapter 3 Movable Objects: Understanding Phrases and Clauses 29
Chapter 4 Size Matters: Short versus Long Sentences 36
Chapter 5 Words Gone Wild: Sentences that Say Nothing-or Worse 53
Chapter 6 Words Gone Mild: Choosing Specific Words Over Vague Ones 61
Chapter 7 A Frequently Overstated Case: The Truth about Adverbs 65
Chapter 8 Are Your Relatives Essential? Relative Clauses 72
Chapter 9 Antique Desk Suitable for Lady with Thick Legs and Large Drawers: Prepositional Phrases 80
Chapter 10 Dangler Danger: Participles and Other Danglers 85
Chapter 11 The Writing was Ignored by the Reader: Passives 90
Chapter 12 You Will Have Been Conjugating: Other Matters of Tense 98
Chapter 13 The Being and The Doing are The Killing of Your Writing: Nominalizations 107
Chapter 14 The The: Not-so-Definite Definite Articles 112
Chapter 15 The Writer and His Father Lamented his Ineptitude: Unclear Antecedents 116
Chapter 16 To know Them is to Hating Them: Faulty and Funky Parallels 122
Chapter 17 Taking The Punk out of Punctuation: The Problem with Semicolons and Parentheses 125
Chapter 18 You Don't Say: Descriptive Quotation Attributions 131
Chapter 19 Trimming The Fat: Expressions That Weigh Down Your Sentences 134
Chapter 20 The Major Overhaul: Streamlining Even the Most Problematic Sentences 149
Chapter 21 On Breaking the "Rules": Knowing When to can the Canons 164
Appendix 1 Grammar for Writers 167
Appendix 2 Punctuation Basics for Writers 191
Appendix 3 The Deadliest Catches: The Most Incriminating Errors and How to Avoid Them 204
About the Author 208
Index 209
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Tags: June Casagrande, Best, Sentences, Worst, Writer's Guide, Crafting, Killer
