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  title info:
    title: It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences
    sub title: a writer's guide to crafting killer sentences
  name:
    name part: Casagrande, June.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Problems and exercises.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 214 pages ; 18 cm
  abstract: "This humorous writing book from grammar columnist June Casagrande focuses on the sentence as the unit of meaning in writing, showing writing students and professional writers alike how to craft bold, effective, reader-serving sentences"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: The sentence : the writer's most important tool -- Who cares? Making sentences meaningful to your readers -- Conjunctions that kill : subordination -- Movable objects : understanding phrases and clauses -- Size matters : short versus long sentences -- Words gone wild : sentences that say nothing -- Words gone mild : choosing specific words over vague ones -- A frequently overstated case : the truth about adverbs -- Are your relatives essential? Relative clauses -- Antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers : prepositional phrases -- Danger danger : participles and other danglers -- The writing was ignored by the reader : passives -- You will have been conjugating : other matters of tense -- The being and the doing are the killing of your writing : nominalizations -- The the : not-so-definite definite articles -- The writer and his father lamented his ineptitude : unclear antecedents -- To know them is to hate them : faulty and funky parallels -- Taking the punk out of punctuation : the problem with semicolons and parentheses -- You don't say : descriptive quotation attributions -- Trimming the fat : expressions that weigh down your sentences -- The major overhaul : streamlining even the most problematic sentences -- On breaking the 'rules" : knowing when to can the canons.
  note: June Casagrande.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Sentences
    genre: Problems, exercises, etc
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Paragraphs
    genre: Problems, exercises, etc
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Rhetoric
    genre: Problems, exercises, etc
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Paragraphs
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Rhetoric
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Sentences
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Paragraphs
    topic: Problems, exercises, etc
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Rhetoric
    topic: Problems, exercises, etc
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Sentences
    topic: Problems, exercises, etc
  subject:
    topic: Writing
  classification: PE1441 .C43 2010
  classification: 808/.042076
  identifier: 9781580087407
  identifier: 158008740X
  identifier: 2009040410
  identifier: Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090930
    record change date: 20180718084440.0
    record identifier: in00003911867
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng