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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)
    Publication Date: 04/01/2016
    ISBN13: 9780134080376, 978-0134080376
    ISBN10: 0134080378
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    Language learning: writing skills Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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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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