Rhetorical grammar : grammatical choices, rhetorical effects /
This book encourages writers to recognize and use the grammatical and stylistic choices available to them and to understand the rhetorical effects those choices can have on their readers.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, New Jersey :
Pearson,
[2013]
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| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I The Structure of Sentences
- ch. 1 A Review of Words and Phrases
- Chapter Preview
- Form Classes
- Nouns and Verbs
- The Noun Phrase
- The Verb Phrase
- NP + VP = S
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Prepositional Phrases
- Key Terms
- ch. 2 Sentence Patterns
- Chapter Preview
- Rhetorical Effects
- The Be Patterns
- The Linking Verb Pattern
- The Intransitive Verb Pattern
- The Basic Transitive Verb Pattern
- Transitive Patterns with Two Complements
- Sentence Pattern Summary
- The Optional Adverbial
- Questions and Commands
- Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns
- Basic Patterns in Prose
- The Short Paragraph
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminder
- ch. 3 Our Versatile Verbs
- Chapter Preview
- The Expanded Verb
- Using the Expanded Verbs
- Special Uses of the Present Tense
- Other Auxiliaries
- Do-Support
- Modal Auxiliaries
- The Passive Voice
- Forms of the Passive Voice
- Contents note continued: Using the Passive Voice
- The Obscure Agent
- Well-Chosen Verbs: Showing, Not Telling
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- ch. 4 Coordination and Subordination
- Chapter Preview
- Coordination Within the Sentence
- Parallel Structure
- Coordination of the Series
- Climax
- Coordination with Correlative Conjunctions
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Compound Sentences
- Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases
- Compound Sentences with Semicolons
- Compound Sentences with Colons
- Punctuation Pitfalls
- The Compound Sentence: Punctuation Review
- Subordination: The Dependent Clauses
- Revising Compound Structures
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminders
- pt. II Controlling the Message
- ch. 5 Cohesion
- Chapter Preview
- Reader Expectation
- Repetition
- The Known-New Contract
- The Role of Pronouns
- Personal Pronouns
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- The Role of the Passive Voice
- Other Sentence Inversions
- Contents note continued: Parallelism
- Repetition Versus Redundancy
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- ch. 6 Sentence Rhythm
- Chapter Preview
- Your Sense of Rhythm
- End Focus
- Controlling Rhythm
- The It-Cleft
- The What-Cleft
- The There-Transformation
- Rhythm and the Comma
- Power Words
- Correlative Conjunctions
- Adverbials of Emphasis
- The Common Only
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminder
- ch. 7 The Writer's Voice
- Chapter Preview
- Tone
- Diction
- Metaphor
- Verbs and Formality
- Nominalized Verbs and Abstract Subjects
- Contractions
- Metadiscourse
- Point of View
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminders
- pt. III Making Choices: Form and Function
- ch. 8 Choosing Adverbials
- Chapter Preview
- The Movable Adverbials
- Adverbs
- Prepositional Phrases
- The Proliferating Prepositional Phrase
- Noun Phrases
- Verb Phrases
- Dependent Clauses
- Punctuation of Adverbial Clauses
- Contents note continued: The Movability of Adverbial Clauses
- The Because-Clause Myth
- The Elliptical Adverbial Clause
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminders
- ch. 9 Choosing Adjectivals
- Chapter Preview
- The Noun Phrase
- Preheadword Modifiers
- Determiners
- Adjectives and Nouns
- Modifier Noun Proliferation
- Postheadword Modifiers
- Prepositional Phrases
- Adjective Phrases
- Participial Phrases
- The Prenoun Participle
- The Movable Participial Phrase
- The Dangling Participle
- Relative Clauses
- The Relatives
- The Broad-Reference Clause
- Punctuation of Phrases and Clauses
- A Punctuation Rule Revisited
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminders
- ch. 10 Choosing Nominals
- Chapter Preview
- Appositives
- Colons and Dashes with Appositives
- Avoiding Punctuation Errors
- The Sentence Appositive
- Nominal Verb Phrases
- Gerunds
- The Dangling Gerund
- The Subject of the Gerund
- Infinitives
- Contents note continued: Nominal Clauses
- Nominals as Delayed Subjects
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminders
- ch. 11 Other Stylistic Variations
- Chapter Preview
- Style
- Absolute Phrases
- The Coordinate Series
- Repetition
- Word-Order Variation
- Ellipsis
- Antithesis
- The Deliberate Fragment
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminder
- Punctuation Reminders
- pt. IV Your Way with Words
- ch. 12 Words and Word Classes
- Chapter Preview
- Your Lexicon
- Parts of Speech
- The Form Classes
- Nouns
- Plural-Only Forms
- Collective Nouns
- Proper Nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Derivational Affixes
- The Structure Classes
- Determiners
- Auxiliaries
- Qualifiers
- Prepositions
- Particles
- Conjunctions
- Pronouns
- Personal Pronouns
- The Missing Pronoun
- Case Errors
- The Unwanted Apostrophe
- The Ambiguous Antecedent
- Reflexive Pronouns
- Intensive Pronouns
- Reciprocal Pronouns
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- Contents note continued: Indefinite Pronouns
- The Everyone/Their Issue
- Key Terms
- Rhetorical Reminders
- Punctuation Reminders
- pt. V Punctuation
- ch. 13 Punctuation: Its Purposes, Its Hierarchy, and Its Rhetorical Effects
- Chapter Preview
- The Purposes of Punctuation Marks
- Syntax
- Prosody
- Semantics
- The Hierarchy of Punctuation
- The Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation
- Key Terms.