Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style

"In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing."

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Virginia Tufte covers how to use the various forms of "-ing"

". . . Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, generally recognized as the best study of sentence style."

--Brooks Landon, University of Iowa, in Building Useful Sentences, page 122.

Sentence structure is the main focus of this book. Virginia Tufte describes different forms of syntax, then gives examples from actual pieces of writing. Artful Sentences showcases specific, universally applicable skills that writers should use to add elegance to their work.