It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

Ich habe zwar Englisch studiert und kenne somit vieles was Grammatik und Syntax angeht, aber welche Effekte diese Anwedungen auf den Leser haben, blieb mir bislang verborgen. Ich habe gehofft, dass dieses Buch mir dabei helfen kann, bessere und klarere Sätze zu verfassen, und genau das ist der Fall. Die Autorin geht mit viel Humor und leicht zu verstehenden Beispielen an die einzelnen Themenblöcke heran: 1. Who cares? Making your sentences meaningful to your reader 2. Conjunctions that kill: Subordination 3. Movable objects: Understanding phrases and clauses 4. Size matters: Short versus long sentences 5. Words gone wild: Sentences that say nothing - or worse 6. Words gone mild: Choosing specific words over vague ones 7. A frequently overstated case: The truth about adverbs 8. Are your relatives essential? Relative clauses 9. Antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers: Prepositional phrases 10. Dangler danger: Participles and other danglers 11. The writing was ignored by the reader: Passives 12. You will have been conjugating: Other matters of tense 13. The being and the doing are the killing of your writing: Nominalizations 14. The THE: Not-so-definite definite articles 15. The writer and his father lamented his ineptitude: Unclear antecedents 16. To know them is to hating them: Faulty and funky parallels 17. Taking the punk out of punctuation: The problem with semicolons and parenthesis 18. You don't say: Descriptive quotation attributions 19. Trimming the fat: Expressions that weigh down your sentences 20. The major overhaul: Streamlining even the most problematic sentences 21. On breaking the "rules": Knowing when to can the canons Appendix 1: Grammar for writers Appendix 2: Punctuation for writers Appendix 3: The dealiest catches: The most incriminationg errors and how to avoid them Alles in allem ist dieses Buch ein klasse Nachschlagewerk und ich werde es immer wieder benutzen.