TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burch,Beth C.
TI  - A writer's grammar
SN  - 0205318045 (pbk)
U1  - 428.2 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pearson
KW  - English language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Style
N1  - 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
ER  -