| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-362) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Power and Pizzazz of Verbs -- Me Tarzan, You Jane: The world before verbs -- Up! Cup! Tadatz! Our first sentences -- Bastard Verbs: A new angle on the Angles -- Grammar Wars: The tension between chaos and control -- I Came, I Saw, I Conquered: The dynamics of verbs -- Verb Tenses: A rose is a rose is a rose. Until it dies. Then it was a rose -- Passive Restraint: Understanding the voice of verbs -- Be There or Be Square: Time to master moods -- Predicate Etiquette: Making the back end of a sentence behave -- Verbal Dexterity: Playing with participles and other cross-dressers -- Two-Stroke Engines: Pair a verb with a particle and---presto! -- Headache Verbs: Odd usages and other sources of confusion -- Epilogue : Got Style? -- Appendix 1 : Chomp---or, um, Chomsky---on this -- Appendix 2 : Each of these cases are complicated. Is complicated? -- Appendix 3 : When it comes to dictionaries, be polygamous -- Appendix 4 : Those sneaky irregular verbs -- Appendix 5 : Phrasal verbs: What's up, what's down -- Appendix 6: More migraines. |
| Summary |
Helps aspiring writers understand the importance of using powerful verbs in their work through examples of brilliant writing and presents a linguistic history to demonstrate how language and writing has evolved over time. |
| Subject |
English language -- Verb.
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English language -- Usage.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
(OCoLC)fst00911581
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English language -- Usage.
(OCoLC)fst00911918
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English language -- Verb.
(OCoLC)fst00911932
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| ISBN |
9780393081169 (hbk.) |
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0393081168 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
40021501128 |
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