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Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style by Virginia Tufte — WisdomDeck honest review
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Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style

by Virginia Tufte

A thousand example sentences organized by syntax, showing how structure creates style. A workbook for sentence-level mastery.

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you want to write better sentences by studying great ones.

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you want a narrative guide.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Syntax is style.
  2. Study models.
  3. Vary structure deliberately.

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Sentence craft.

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