Making Better Sentences
Subtitle: the Power of Structure and Meaning
By: Rebecca Vickers
Series: Find your way with words; Find your way with words
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781432976545; 9781432976590
Subjects: Report writing; Rhetoric; Grammar; English language; Sentences
Description: This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subject of sentence construction and is a perfect resource for teaching common core state standards. It looks at a variety of topics, such as sentence types, clauses, and phrases, and shows how sentence structure can be used to convey complete ideas clearly in a range of text types and genres.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 55) and index.
Table of contents: title: Let's communicate; title: Sentences: The building blocks of writing; title: Simple, compound, and complex sentences; title: Punctuation helps fit it all together; title: Right or wrong: avoiding common sentence errors; title: Getting your modifiers in the right place; title: Good sentences into good writing; title: Variety and accuracy equals effective communication; title: Understanding dictionary entries.