Writing with Style
Grammar in Context
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 29 April 2010
- ISBN 9780195431735
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 230x154x12 mm
- Weight 276 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 22 Photos 0
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Short description:
A grammar handbook intended as a supplemental text for lower division English courses at the university and college level, with a focus on composition and creative writing.
MoreLong description:
This concise, supplemental text helps students understand the intricacies of grammar in order to improve their writing skills. A variety of well-known literary quotes and excerpts contextualize grammar principles and are accompanied by a range of simple to complex writing exercises. The author uses the method of first breaking down the quotation into its grammatical elements, and then rebuilding it to examine how the elements and devices create or enhance meaning, demonstrating how
the featured writer has used a sophisticated knowledge of language to communicate effectively. Innovat
Table of Contents:
Part I: Quotations
Jane Austen - Parts Of A Sentence: Subject/Predicate
Franz Kafka - Parts Of Speech
Margaret Atwood - Noun, Simple Sentence, Figures Of Speech
James Joyce - Verb: Principle Parts, Tense
Dylan Thomas - Verb-Finite/Verbals, Transitive/Intransitive
Pearl S. Buck - Verb: Mood
French Feminists - Parts of a Sentence: Subject/Object
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Adjective, Adverb
Andre Gide - Simple Sentence, Phrases
Heraclitus - Compound Sentence, Independent Clause, Parallel Constructions
Oscar Wilde - Compound Sentence, Parataxis, Conjunctions
Virginia Woolf - Compound Sentence Freight Train, Triad
Graham Greene - Complex Sentences/Dependent Clauses
Hannah Arendt - Complex Sentence, Dependent Clauses, Subordinating Conjunctions
Martin Luther - King Jr. Clauses
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Punctuating Clauses, Restrictive And Non Restrictive Clauses
David Suzuki - Compound Complex Sentences, Analogy
Barbara Gowdy - Fragment, Pronouns, Tone
Angela Carter - Interruption, Allusion
A Cornucopia of Voices - Figures Of Speech: Metaphor, Simile
A Plethora Of Voices - Emphatic Device: Repetition
George Elliott Clarke - Emphatic Device: Accumulation
Simone Weil - Emphatic Device: Rhythm
The Oxford English Dictionary - Diction
Review
Part II: Excerpts
Don McKay - Clarity
Charles Dickens - Emphatic Devices
Peter Sanger - Diction
Harry Thurston - Description
Dorothy Lessing - Flow
Barak Obama - Parallel Construction, Anaphora
Annie Dillard - Poetic Devices Used in Good Prose
Phil Fontaine - Eloquence, Tense
Thomas Carlyle - Last Word
Glossary
List of Further Reading
Index
