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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
Touching the Bases
After all of these wonderful reviews, I do not like to hit a discordant note. However, I was disappointed by this book. The sentences selected are definitely artful, as promised in the title, and the author's knowledge of syntax is complete. One...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Excellent Book!
This book has a wonderful variety of creative and artful sentences to add to your own vocabulary of creativeness.
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 02, 2007 Type: User Review |
Elevates sentence structure to high art
I cannot put this book down. It is beautifully bound and published. Virginia's insight into sentence structure and style expose the sheer beauty of the English language. She talks of participles, prepositions, nouns, verbs, phrases, all as if they...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 30, 2006 Type: User Review |
A Vote for Artful Sentences
I've given this book to friends who have given it to theirs. It's a book that sits on my library table instead of my bookshelf. I like to pick it up, and flip through the pages until I settle on an appealing passage. To characterize Artful...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 17, 2006 Type: User Review |
A Book for All Writers
If you care about language, and especially if you write, this is a book to have on hand. Virginia Tufte's project in Artful Sentences is not simply to explain the rules of English sentence structure, although the book is certainly useful in that...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 03, 2006 Type: User Review |
A remarkable collection of over 1000 sentences demonstrating the utilization of syntax to create a distinctive writing style
Artful Sentences: Syntax As Style by Virginia Tufte (Distinguished Emeritas Professor of English at the University of Southern California) is a remarkable collection of over one-thousand sentences demonstrating the utilization of syntax to create...
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5.00/5 |
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