By Roy Peter Clark
Early within the heritage of English, the phrases "grammar" and "glamour" intended a similar factor: the facility to appeal. Roy Peter Clark, writer of Writing instruments, aims to place the glamour again in grammar with this enjoyable, enticing replacement to stuffy instructionals. during this sensible advisor, readers will examine every thing from the several elements of speech to why powerful writers favor concrete nouns and energetic verbs. THE GLAMOUR OF GRAMMAR</i>gives<i>readers the entire instruments they want to"live contained in the language"--to make the most of grammar to excellent their use of English, to instill that means, and to appeal via their writing. With this necessary ebook, readers will come to determine simply how glamorous grammar can be.
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7. Enjoy, rather than fear, words that sound alike. 8. Learn seven ways to invent words. 9. Become your own lexicographer. 10. Take advantage of the short-word economy of English. 11. Learn when and how to enrich your prose with foreign words. Part Two. POINTS 12. Use the period to determine emphasis and space. 13. Advocate use of the serial comma. 14. ” 15. Embrace the three amigos: colon, dash, and parentheses. 16. Let your ear help govern the possessive apostrophe. 17. Take advantage of the versatility of quotation marks.
You’ll discover that no distinction is too small, that parts of speech can cross-dress, and that language is a source of limitless creativity. Part Two. Points: To work together, words need help. They need connecting words, and they need punctuation. All methods of punctuation point the way for the reader, gathering, linking, separating, and emphasizing what truly matters. These marks are more than squiggles on the page. They are the ligaments of meaning and purpose. Part Three. Standards: To make meaning with clarity and consistency, users of language lean on conventions, sets of informal agreements about what constitutes proper and improper usage.
Part Five. PURPOSE 41. Master the uses of nonstandard English. 42. Add a pinch of dialect for flavor. 43. Tame taboo language to suit your purposes. 44. Unleash your associative imagination. 45. Play with sounds, natural and literary. 46. Master the distinction between denotation and connotation. 47. Measure the distance between concrete and abstract language. 48. Harness the power of particularity. 49. Have fun with initials and acronyms, but avoid “capital” offenses. 50. Master the grammar of new forms of writing.