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Table of Contents
Table of Contents PART I. The Structure of Sentences
  1. A Review of Words and Phrases
    • Chapter Preview
    • Open Classes
    • Nouns and Verbs
    • The Noun Phrase
    • The Verb Phrase
    • NP + VP = S
    • Adjectives and Adverbs
    • Prepositional Phrases
    • Key Terms
  2. Sentence Patterns
    • Chapter Preview
    • Rhetorical Effects
    • The Be Patterns
    • The Linking Verb Pattern
    • The Intransitive Verb Pattern
    • The Basic Transitive Verb Pattern
    • Transitive Patterns with Two Complements
    • Sentence Pattern Summary
    • The Optional Adverbial
    • Questions and Commands
    • Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns
    • Basic Patterns in Prose
    • The Short Paragraph
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminder
  3. Our Versatile Verbs
    • Chapter Preview
    • The Expanded Verb
    • Using the Expanded Verbs
    • Special Uses of the Present Tense
    • Other Auxiliaries
    • Do-Support
    • Modal Auxiliaries
    • The Passive Voice
    • Forms of the Passive Voice
    • Using the Passive Voice
    • The Missing Agent
    • Well-Chosen Verbs: Showing, Not Telling
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
  4. Coordination and Subordination
    • Chapter Preview
    • Coordination within the Sentence
    • Parallel Structure
    • Coordination of the Series
    • Climax
    • Coordination with Correlative Conjunctions
    • Subject-Verb Agreement
    • Compound Sentences
    • Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases
    • Compound Sentences with Semicolons
    • Compound Sentences with Colons
    • Punctuation Pitfalls
    • The Compound Sentence: Punctuation Review
    • Subordination: The Dependent Clauses
    • Effective Coordination and Subordination
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminders
PART II. Making Choices: Form and Function
  1. Choosing Adverbials
    • Chapter Preview
    • The Movable Adverbials
    • Adverb Phrases
    • Prepositional Phrases
    • The Proliferating Prepositional Phrase
    • Noun Phrases
    • Verb Phrases
    • Dependent Clauses
    • Punctuation of Adverbial Clauses
    • The Movability of Adverbial Clauses
    • The Because-Clause Myth
    • The Elliptical Adverbial Clause
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminders
  2. Choosing Adjectivals
    • Chapter Preview
    • The Noun Phrase
    • Preheadword Modifiers
    • Determiners
    • Adjectives and Nouns
    • Modifier Noun Proliferation
    • Postheadword Modifiers
    • Prepositional Phrases
    • Adjective Phrases
    • Participial Phrases
    • The Prenoun Participle
    • The Movable Participial Phrase
    • The Dangling Participle
    • Relative Clauses
    • The Relatives
    • The Broad-Reference Clause
    • Punctuation of Phrases and Clauses
    • A Punctuation Rule Revisited
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminders
  3. Choosing Nominals
    • Chapter Preview
    • Appositives
    • Colons and Dashes with Appositives
    • Avoiding Punctuation Errors
    • The Sentence Appositive
    • Nominal Verb Phrases
    • Gerunds
    • The Dangling Gerund
    • The Subject of the Gerund
    • Infinitives
    • Nominal Clauses
    • Nominals as Delayed Subjects
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminders
  4. Other Stylistic Variations
    • Chapter Preview
    • Style
    • Absolute Phrases
    • The Coordinate Series
    • Repetition
    • Word-Order Variation
    • Ellipsis
    • Antithesis
    • The Deliberate Fragment
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminders
PART III. Controlling the Message
  1. Cohesion
    • Chapter Preview
    • Reader Expectation
    • Repetition
    • The Known–New Contract
    • The Role of Pronouns
    • Personal Pronouns
    • Demonstrative Pronouns
    • The Role of the Passive Voice
    • Other Sentence Inversions
    • Parallelism
    • Parallelism and Repetition versus Redundancy and Wordiness
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
  2. Sentence Rhythm
    • Chapter Preview
    • Your Sense of Rhythm
    • End Focus
    • Controlling Rhythm
    • The It-Cleft
    • The What-Cleft
    • The There-Transformation
    • Transitional Phrases and Conjunctive Adverbs
    • Power Words
    • Adverbials of Emphasis
    • The Common Only
    • Correlative Conjunctions
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminder
  3. The Writer’s Voice
    • Chapter Preview
    • Tone
    • Diction
    • Metaphor
    • Verbs and Formality
    • Nominalized Verbs and Abstract Subjects
    • Contractions
    • Metadiscourse
    • Point of View
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminders
PART IV. Your Way with Words
  1. Words and Word Classes
    • Chapter Preview
    • Your Lexicon
    • Parts of Speech
    • The Open Classes
    • Nouns
    • Plural-Only Forms
    • Collective Nouns
    • Proper Nouns
    • Verbs
    • Adjectives
    • Adverbs
    • Derivational Affixes
    • The Closed Classes
    • Determiners
    • Auxiliaries
    • Qualifiers
    • Prepositions
    • Particles
    • Conjunctions
    • Pronouns
    • Personal Pronouns
    • The Missing Pronoun
    • Case Errors
    • The Unwanted Apostrophe
    • The Ambiguous Antecedent
    • Reflexive Pronouns
    • Intensive Pronouns
    • Reciprocal Pronouns
    • Demonstrative Pronouns
    • Indefinite Pronouns
    • The Everyone/Their Issue
    • Key Terms
    • Rhetorical Reminders
    • Punctuation Reminders
PART V. Punctuation
  1. Punctuation: Its Purposes and Its Rhetorical Effects
    • Chapter Preview
    • The Purposes of Punctuation Marks
    • Syntax
    • Prosody
    • Semantics
    • Open and Close Punctuation
    • The Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation
    • Key Terms
Glossary of Punctuation Glossary of Terms Bibliography Answers to the Exercises Index

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      Publisher Pearson Education (US)
      Published 4 January 2016
      ISBN-13 9780134080376
      978-0134080376
      ISBN-10 0134080378
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      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Table of Contents PART I. The Structure of Sentences
      1. A Review of Words and Phrases
        • Chapter Preview
        • Open Classes
        • Nouns and Verbs
        • The Noun Phrase
        • The Verb Phrase
        • NP + VP = S
        • Adjectives and Adverbs
        • Prepositional Phrases
        • Key Terms
      2. Sentence Patterns
        • Chapter Preview
        • Rhetorical Effects
        • The Be Patterns
        • The Linking Verb Pattern
        • The Intransitive Verb Pattern
        • The Basic Transitive Verb Pattern
        • Transitive Patterns with Two Complements
        • Sentence Pattern Summary
        • The Optional Adverbial
        • Questions and Commands
        • Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns
        • Basic Patterns in Prose
        • The Short Paragraph
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminder
      3. Our Versatile Verbs
        • Chapter Preview
        • The Expanded Verb
        • Using the Expanded Verbs
        • Special Uses of the Present Tense
        • Other Auxiliaries
        • Do-Support
        • Modal Auxiliaries
        • The Passive Voice
        • Forms of the Passive Voice
        • Using the Passive Voice
        • The Missing Agent
        • Well-Chosen Verbs: Showing, Not Telling
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
      4. Coordination and Subordination
        • Chapter Preview
        • Coordination within the Sentence
        • Parallel Structure
        • Coordination of the Series
        • Climax
        • Coordination with Correlative Conjunctions
        • Subject-Verb Agreement
        • Compound Sentences
        • Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases
        • Compound Sentences with Semicolons
        • Compound Sentences with Colons
        • Punctuation Pitfalls
        • The Compound Sentence: Punctuation Review
        • Subordination: The Dependent Clauses
        • Effective Coordination and Subordination
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminders
      PART II. Making Choices: Form and Function
      1. Choosing Adverbials
        • Chapter Preview
        • The Movable Adverbials
        • Adverb Phrases
        • Prepositional Phrases
        • The Proliferating Prepositional Phrase
        • Noun Phrases
        • Verb Phrases
        • Dependent Clauses
        • Punctuation of Adverbial Clauses
        • The Movability of Adverbial Clauses
        • The Because-Clause Myth
        • The Elliptical Adverbial Clause
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminders
      2. Choosing Adjectivals
        • Chapter Preview
        • The Noun Phrase
        • Preheadword Modifiers
        • Determiners
        • Adjectives and Nouns
        • Modifier Noun Proliferation
        • Postheadword Modifiers
        • Prepositional Phrases
        • Adjective Phrases
        • Participial Phrases
        • The Prenoun Participle
        • The Movable Participial Phrase
        • The Dangling Participle
        • Relative Clauses
        • The Relatives
        • The Broad-Reference Clause
        • Punctuation of Phrases and Clauses
        • A Punctuation Rule Revisited
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminders
      3. Choosing Nominals
        • Chapter Preview
        • Appositives
        • Colons and Dashes with Appositives
        • Avoiding Punctuation Errors
        • The Sentence Appositive
        • Nominal Verb Phrases
        • Gerunds
        • The Dangling Gerund
        • The Subject of the Gerund
        • Infinitives
        • Nominal Clauses
        • Nominals as Delayed Subjects
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminders
      4. Other Stylistic Variations
        • Chapter Preview
        • Style
        • Absolute Phrases
        • The Coordinate Series
        • Repetition
        • Word-Order Variation
        • Ellipsis
        • Antithesis
        • The Deliberate Fragment
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminders
      PART III. Controlling the Message
      1. Cohesion
        • Chapter Preview
        • Reader Expectation
        • Repetition
        • The Known–New Contract
        • The Role of Pronouns
        • Personal Pronouns
        • Demonstrative Pronouns
        • The Role of the Passive Voice
        • Other Sentence Inversions
        • Parallelism
        • Parallelism and Repetition versus Redundancy and Wordiness
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
      2. Sentence Rhythm
        • Chapter Preview
        • Your Sense of Rhythm
        • End Focus
        • Controlling Rhythm
        • The It-Cleft
        • The What-Cleft
        • The There-Transformation
        • Transitional Phrases and Conjunctive Adverbs
        • Power Words
        • Adverbials of Emphasis
        • The Common Only
        • Correlative Conjunctions
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminder
      3. The Writer’s Voice
        • Chapter Preview
        • Tone
        • Diction
        • Metaphor
        • Verbs and Formality
        • Nominalized Verbs and Abstract Subjects
        • Contractions
        • Metadiscourse
        • Point of View
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminders
      PART IV. Your Way with Words
      1. Words and Word Classes
        • Chapter Preview
        • Your Lexicon
        • Parts of Speech
        • The Open Classes
        • Nouns
        • Plural-Only Forms
        • Collective Nouns
        • Proper Nouns
        • Verbs
        • Adjectives
        • Adverbs
        • Derivational Affixes
        • The Closed Classes
        • Determiners
        • Auxiliaries
        • Qualifiers
        • Prepositions
        • Particles
        • Conjunctions
        • Pronouns
        • Personal Pronouns
        • The Missing Pronoun
        • Case Errors
        • The Unwanted Apostrophe
        • The Ambiguous Antecedent
        • Reflexive Pronouns
        • Intensive Pronouns
        • Reciprocal Pronouns
        • Demonstrative Pronouns
        • Indefinite Pronouns
        • The Everyone/Their Issue
        • Key Terms
        • Rhetorical Reminders
        • Punctuation Reminders
      PART V. Punctuation
      1. Punctuation: Its Purposes and Its Rhetorical Effects
        • Chapter Preview
        • The Purposes of Punctuation Marks
        • Syntax
        • Prosody
        • Semantics
        • Open and Close Punctuation
        • The Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation
        • Key Terms
      Glossary of Punctuation Glossary of Terms Bibliography Answers to the Exercises Index

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