Writing with style : grammar in context

Pyrcz, Heather Elizabeth 1951- (Author).

Summary: Teaches grammar using literary quotations and excerpts from Austen, Kafka, Atwood, Joyce, Buck, Wilde, Woolf, Suzuki, Dickens and other literary figures.

Record details

ISBN: 9780195431735 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0195431731
Physical Description: print
xi, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt.I: Lessons: Parts of a sentence : subject, predicate -- Parts of speech -- Nouns, simple sentences, figures of speech -- Verbs : principal parts, tense -- Verbs : finite/verbal, intransitive/transitive -- Verbs : mood -- Parts of a sentence : subject, object -- Adjectives, adverbs -- Simple sentences, phrases -- Compound sentences, independent clauses, parallel constructions -- Compound sentences, parataxis, conjunctions -- Compound sentences, freight trains, triads -- Complex sentences, dependent clauses -- Complex sentences, dependent clauses, subordinating conjunctions -- Clauses -- Punctuating clauses, restrictive and non-restrictive clauses -- Compound-complex sentences, analogies -- Fragments, pronouns, tone -- Interruption, allusion -- Figures of speech : metaphor, simile -- Emphatic devices : repetition -- Emphatic devices : accumulation -- Emphatic devices : rhythm -- The Canadian Oxford dictionary : diction --