Burch, Beth C.
A writer's grammar /
C. Beth Burch.
- New York : Pearson, c2003.
- xiv, 226 p. : 23 cm.
Preface. - Acknowledgments. - Ch. 1. The shape of things: Sentence patterns. - Ch. 2. Naming the parts,I: Form classes, noun clusters. - Ch. 3. Naming the parts, 2: Form classes, verb clusters, structure words. - Ch. 4. Patterns transformed. - Ch. 5. Clustering, compounding, verbals, and nominative absolutes. - Ch. 6. Joining and combining patterns and other elements. - Ch. 7. From grammar to style: Rhetorical strategies and figures. - Ch. 8. A dozen prose passages: Reading for grammatical understanding. - Ch. 9. A punctuation gallery. - Glossary. - Index.
0205318045 (pbk)
English language--Grammar.
English language--Rhetoric.
English language--Style.
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