Rhetorical Grammar
Rhetorical Grammar 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.\ Rhetorical Grammar is a writer's grammar - a text that presents grammar as a rhetorical tool, avoiding the do's and don'ts so long associated with the study of grammar. It reveals to writers the system of grammar that they know subconsciously and encourages them to use that knowledge to understand...
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Rhetorical Grammar 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.Rhetorical Grammar is a writer's grammar - a text that presents grammar as a rhetorical tool, avoiding the do's and don'ts so long associated with the study of grammar. It reveals to writers the system of grammar that they know subconsciously and encourages them to use that knowledge to understand their choices as writers and the effects of those choices on their readers. Besides providing key strategies for revision, Rhetorical Grammar presents systematic discussions of reader expectation, sentence rhythm and cohesion, subordination and coordination, punctuation, modification, diction, and other principles.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART IThe Structure of SentencesChapter 1An Introduction to Words and PhrasesChapter PreviewForm ClassesNounsThe Noun PhraseVerbsThe Verb PhraseNP + VP = SAdjectives and AdverbsPrepositional PhrasesGrammatical ChoicesKey TermsChapter 2Sentence PatternsChapter PreviewRhetorical EffectsThe Be PatternsThe Linking Verb PatternThe Intransitive PatternThe Basic Transitive Verb PatternTransitive Patterns with Two ComplementsSentence Pattern SummaryThe Optional AdverbialQuestions and CommandsPunctuation and the Sentence PatternsBasic Patterns in ProseThe Short ParagraphKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation ReminderChapter 3Our Versatile VerbsChapter PreviewThe Expanded VerbUsing the Expanded VerbSpecial Uses of the Present TenseOther AuxiliariesThe Passive VoiceUsing the Passive VoiceThe Obscure AgentWell-Chose Verbs: Showing, Not TellingKey TermsRhetorical RemindersChapter 4Coordination and SubordinationChapter PreviewCoordination Within the SentenceParallel StructureCoordination of the SeriesClimaxCoordination with Correlative ConjunctionsSubject-Verb AgreementCompound SentencesConjunctive Adverbs and Transitional PhrasesCompound Sentences with SemicolonsCompound Sentences with ColonsPunctuation PitfallsThe Compound Sentence: Punctuation ReviewSubordination: The Dependent ClausesRevising Compound StructuresKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation RemindersPart IIControlling the MessageChapter 5CohesionChapter PreviewReader ExpectationRepetitionThe Known-New ContractThe Role of PronounsPersonal PronounsDemonstrative PronounsThe Role of the Passive VoiceOther Sentence InversionsParallelismRepetition versus RedundancyKey TermsRhetorical RemindersChapter 6Sentence RhythmChapter PreviewIntonation: The Peaks and ValleysEnd FocusControlling RhythmThe It-CleftThe What-CleftThe There TransformationRhythm and the CommaPower WordsCorrelative ConjunctionsAdverbials of EmphasisThe Common Only Key TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation ReminderChapter 7The Writer’s VoiceChapter PreviewToneDictionVerbs and FormalityNominalized Verbs and Abstract SubjectsContractionsMetaphorMetadiscourseThe Overuse of MetadiscoursePoint of ViewKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation RemindersPart IIIMaking Choices: Form and FunctionChapter 8Choosing AdverbialsChapter PreviewThe Movable AdverbialsAdverbsPrepositional PhrasesProliferating Prepositional PhrasesNoun PhrasesVerb PhrasesDependent ClausesPunctuation of Adverbial ClausesMovability of Adverbial ClausesThe Because-Clause MythElliptical Adverbial ClausesKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation RemindersChapter 9Choosing AdjectivalsChapter PreviewThe Noun PhrasePreheadword ModifiersDeterminersAdjectives and NounsModifier Noun ProliferationThe Movable Adjective PhrasePostheadword ModifiersPrepositional PhrasesAdjective PhrasesParticipial PhrasesThe Prenoun ParticipleThe Movable ParticipleThe Dangling ParticipleRelative ClausesThe RelativesThe Broad-Reference ClausePunctuation of Phrases and ClausesA Punctuation Rule RevisitedKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation RemindersChapter 10Choosing NominalsChapter PreviewAppositivesThe Colon with AppositivesAvoiding Punctuation ErrorsThe Sentence AppositiveNominal Verb PhrasesGerundsThe Dangling GerundThe Subject of the GerundInfinitivesNominal ClausesNominals as Delayed SubjectsKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation ReminderChapter 11Other Stylistic ChoicesChapter PreviewAbsolute PhrasesThe Coordinate SeriesRepetitionWord-Order VariationEllipsisAntithesisThe Deliberate FragmentKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation RemindersPART IVYour Way With WordsChapter 12Words and Word ClassesLexical RulesParts of SpeechThe Form ClassesNounsPlural-Only FormsCollective NounsProper NounsVerbsAdjectivesAdverbsDerivational AffixesThe Structure ClassesDeterminersAuxiliariesQualifiersPrepositionsParticlesConjunctionsPronounsPersonal PronounsThe Missing PronounCase ErrorsThe Unwanted ApostropheThe Ambiguous AntecedentReflexive PronounsIntensive PronounsReciprocal PronounsDemonstrative PronounsIndefinite PronounsThe Everyone/Their IssueKey TermsRhetorical RemindersPunctuation RemindersPART VPunctuationChapter 13Punctuation: Its Purposes, Its Hierarchy, and Its Rhetorical EffectsThe Purposes of Punctuation MarksSyntaxProsodySemanticsThe Hierarchy of PunctuationThe Rhetorical Effects of PunctuationKey TermsGlossary of PunctuationGlossary of TermsBibliographyAnswers to the ExercisesIndex
