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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…

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1 author picked Artful Sentences as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Barbara Baig

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My debt to this book is huge, and my gratitude to Professor Tufte is boundless. From this book, I learned much of what I now know about the possibilities of the English sentence. Appositives, nominative absolutes, left- and right-branching sentences, inversions: These techniques and many more became a regular part of my writing practice. I delighted in exploring them and seeing what they could do for my writing.

Eventually, I became familiar enough with them to be able to pass them on–through practices I invented and taught my students. Undergrads, graduate students, working adults, aspiring creative writers: they all benefited.…

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