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9780393081169

Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Let Verbs Power Your Writing

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    9780393081169

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    0393081168

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-10-15
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

Writers know itinstinctively: Verbs make a sentence zing. Grammar gurus agree: Drama inwriting emerges from the interplay of a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb).Constance Hale, the best-selling author of Sin and Syntax, zooms in on the colorful world of verbs.Synthesizing the pedagogical and the popular, the scholarly and the scandalous,Hale combines the wit of Bill Bryson with the practical wisdom of WilliamZinsser. She marches through linguistic history to paint a layered picture ofour language-from before it really existed to the quirky usages we see onlinetoday. She warns about habits to avoid and inspires with samples of brilliantwriting. A veteran teacher, Hale gives writing prompts along the way, helpingreaders try, do, write, play. Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch guides us to more powerful writing by demonstratinghow to use great verbs with style.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Power and Pizzazz of Verbsp. 9
Me Tarzan, You Jane: The world before verbsp. 23
Up! Cup! Tadatz! Our first sentencesp. 42
Bastard Verbs: A new angle on the Anglesp. 63
Grammar Wars: The tension between chaos and controlp. 83
I Came, I Saw, I Conquered: The dynamics of verbsp. 104
Verb Tenses: A rose is a rose is a rose. Until it dies. Then it was a rosep. 127
Passive Restraint: Understanding the voice of verbsp. 151
Be There or Be Square: Time to master moodsp. 174
Predicate Etiquette: Making the back end of a sentence behavep. 193
Verbal Dexterity: Playing with participles and other cross-dressersp. 219
Two-Stroke Engines: Pair a verb with a particle and-presto!p. 242
Headache Verbs: Odd usages and other sources of confusionp. 260
Epilogue: Got Style?p. 286
Chomp-or, um, Chomsky-on thisp. 297
Each of these cases are complicated. Is complicated?p. 300
When it comes to dictionaries, be polygamousp. 303
Those sneaky irregular verbsp. 307
Phrasal verbs: What's up, what's downp. 314
More migrainesp. 325
Notesp. 335
Selected Bibliographyp. 353
Acknowledgmentsp. 363
Permissionsp. 369
Indexp. 371
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