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How to write a sentence : and how to read one / Stanley Fish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fish, Stanley Eugene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Sentences.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
- English language--Grammar.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- Genre:
- Problems and exercises.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, [2011]
- Summary:
- Fish has always been an aficionado of language, marveling at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences. Here he offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader).
- Contents:
- Why sentences?
- Why you won't find the answer in Strunk and White
- It's not the thought that counts
- What is a good sentence?
- The subordinating style
- The additive style
- The satiric style : the return of content
- First sentences
- Last sentences
- Sentences that are about themselves (aren't they all?).
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780061840548
- 0061840548
- OCLC:
- 641532413
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