Building great sentences
Subtitle: exploring the writer's craft
By: Brooks Landon.
Contributors: Teaching Company.
Series: The great courses. Literature & English language
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chantilly, Va
Language: eng
Subjects: English language -- Sentences -- Study and teaching; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Notes: "Course No. 2368"

"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Lecture 1. A sequence of words; title: Lecture 2. Grammar and rhetoric; title: Lecture 3. Propositions and meaning; title: Lecture 4. How sentences grow; title: Lecture 5. Adjectival steps; title: Lecture 6. The rhythm of cumulative syntax; title: Lecture 7. Direction of modification; title: Lecture 8. Coordinate, subordinate, and mixed patterns; title: Lecture 9. Coordinate cumulative sentences; title: Lecture 10. Subordinate and mixed cumulatives; title: Lecture 11. Prompts of comparison; title: Lecture 12. Prompts of explanation.; title: Pt. 2. Lecture 13. The riddle of prose rhythm; title: Lecture 14. Cumulative syntax to create suspense; title: Lecture 15. Degrees of suspensiveness; title: Lecture 16. The mechanics of delay; title: Lecture 17. Prefab patterns for suspense; title: Lecture 18. Balanced sentences and balanced forms; title: Lecture 19. The rhythm of twos; title: Lecture 20. The rhythm of threes; title: Lecture 21. Balanced series and serial balances; title: Lecture 22. Master sentences; title: Lecture 23. Sentences in sequence; title: Lecture 24. Sentences and prose style.