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Index
Cover
ALSO BY BRUCE ROSS-LARSON
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Author’s note
AN APPROACH TO SENTENCES
1. COMMON FORMS
Direct
Embellished
Complicated
Conditioned
Multiplied
2. OCCASIONAL SHORT FORMS
Fragments
To start a paragraph or point
To finish a paragraph or point
Pairs and trios
3. DRAMATIC FLOURISHES
Interruptive dashes
Imperatives
Direct address
Recasts
Reversals
Inversions
Cascades
First and last
Exclamations
Interjections
Highlights
4. ELEGANT REPETITIONS
Word
Root
Prefix or suffix
Preposition
Sound
Structure
5. CREDIBLE QUOTATIONS
Direct
Indirect
Opening with a quotation
Showing omission
6. CONVERSATIONAL INJECTIONS
Comments
Questions
Questions answered
Parenthetical asides
Slipped-in modifiers (often as asides)
Contractions
7. STARK ATTACHMENTS
Leading parts
Inner parts
Trailing parts
8. DEFT CONNECTIONS
Series from short to long
Series with an extra conjunction
Series without a conjunction
Paired conjunctions
Starting with a conjunction
Semicolons
Colon linking an example
Colon linking an elaboration
Parallel constructions
The verb-free element
9. ONE-SYLLABLE OPENINGS
It
There
This
That
What
EXEMPLARY SENTENCES
SOURCES
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