Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read Brooks Landon
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Apr 28, 2014 - The excerpt you published strikes me as neither particularly odd nor loathsome on the cosmic scale. If it is a fragment, write fragment. Do you know what makes a complete sentence? Directions: If a group of words is a sentence, write sentence. Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to maximum sentences for bribes and kickbacks which totaled millions of dollars. By Henry on March 6, 2013 More sort of like if the deli had on display a plastic replica of every conceivable sandwich configuration, and you ordered by pointing to the one you wanted. Oct 6, 2010 - Run-on Sentences. Can you identify a sentence fragment? Remember that sentences express a complete thought. That's my point: It's kind of like laser-guided bombs, designed to kill/destroy targets 100 times more efficiently than unguided bombs, but the way they're marketed is “fewer dead bystanders” instead of “more dead targets.” 18. Only in a fascist state where the prisons are paid per prisoner by the state, do you find this kind of evil, where greedy government thugs are incentivised to unjustly lock people in a cage for payoffs. Give your students a grammar quiz, or quiz yourself. Jun 24, 2012 - Moving to the other end of the Tweeting skills spectrum, Doreen Campbell, my mother-in-law, at age 74 is taking a home lecture series titled “Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft.” Her teacher 1) Notice and study the “great sentences” that you liked and would enjoy reading again, especially in books by great authors like Hemingway and Faulkner. Mar 6, 2013 - Great sentences on the modern condition. Dec 9, 2013 - I do love reading good sentences, and try to write them, and I know from the response to my sixty versions of exactly the same sentence that many who read this blog do the same. (Did you find the fragment in that paragraph?) Answers are at the Identifying Sentence Fragments. I've talked about the wonders of the Nor is building good sentences a post-production process: writing good sentences demands understanding what you're trying to say and how you're trying to say it, both of which are rooted in why you're trying to say it. 2) Practice writing The next time you get an itch to share an idea, try both ways. It is logically possible to write great sentences without reading great sentences–Wittgenstein bragged that he never read Plato–but it's not so likely that a heart desirous of writing greatness would not also be moved by reading. I don't know, do other writers make this kind of calculation, like, I know it will be tough, but I've really got to have a sonofabitch up in here?