Vex, hex, smash, smooch : let verbs power your writing /
Hale, Constance.
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Co.,
c2012.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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