Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style by Virginia Tufte

By Virginia Tufte

In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style,Virginia Tufte indicates how usual sentence styles and types give a contribution to which means and paintings in additional than 1000 very good sentences from the 20th and twenty-first centuries.  The ebook has detailed curiosity for aspiring writers, scholars of literature and language, and a person who unearths pleasure in interpreting and writing.

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Katherine Anne Porter, Flowering Judas and Other Stories, 200 Noun modifiers can also be used as adjectivals in more unusual arrangements, here as a kind of appositional substitute for "moonless": It was a dark night, no moon, but the stars diffused a very faint luminescence over everything, a light like softest sound, touch of fur on ebony. John Fowles, The Magus, 275 Science writers often deposit noun collocations and noun compounds as modifiers of other nouns, in an attempt'toward economy and accuracy: Brodinsky et al further show that activity-related changes in neurotransmitter expression also occur in isolated neurons in vitro, hinting that a cell-autonomous mechanism-a mechanism that depends solely on the neuron in question, and not on external factors-regulates neurotransmitter output.

Soul igniting as the blue lights reflect its image back to it, saying, The light of nature, born of the universe, is in you. Trudy Dittmar, Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky, 216 This sentence unites the fragmentary concepts, and its run-on punctuation continues the fragmentary momentum: I'm still enthralled by light, that's a fact, and you can t grab it. Dittmar, 216 Here are fragments of varying length which manage to retain a somewhat lyrical or poetic quality along with their directness and brevity: So much, then, for these things.

William H. Gass, Finding a Form, 305 • VvrmT for three short words, is not and is, the two sentences above are composed entirely of noun phrases, seven of them: Simplicity is a noun; a given is a verb turned into a nominal; It is a pronoun. The remaining four are all nouns with modifiers. As this pair of sentences demonstrates, noun phrases do not always consist of nouns. Noun phrases are structures most often headed by a noun, but they may be headed by a pronoun, or by any other word or structure that stands in for a noun.

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