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The Sentence Is The Common Ground Where Every Writer Walks. A Good Sentence Can Be Written (and Read) By Anyone If We Simply Give It The Gift Of Our Time, And It Is As Close As Most Of Us Will Get To Making Something Truly Beautiful. Using Minimal Technical Terms And Sources Ranging From The Bible And Shakespeare To George Orwell And Maggie Nelson, As Well As Scientific Studies Of What Can Best Fire The Reader's Mind, Author Joe Moran Shows How We Can All Write In A Way That Is Clear, Compelling And Alive. Whether Dealing With Finding The Ideal Word, Building A Sentence, Or Constructing A Paragraph, First You Write A Sentence Informs By Light Example: Much Richer Than A Style Guide, It Can Be Read Not Only For Instruction But For Pleasure And Delight. And Along The Way, It Shows How Good Writing Can Help Us Notice The World, Make Ourselves Known To Others, And Live More Meaningful Lives. It's An Elegant Gem In Praise Of The English Sentence-- A Pedant' S Apology, Or Why I Wrote This Book -- The Ape That Writes Sentences, Or Why Word Order Is (almost) Everything -- Nouns Versus Verbs, Or How To Bring A Sentence To Life, But Not Too Much -- Nothing Like A Windowpane, Or How To Say Wo

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Author

Moran, Joe, 1970- author

Publisher

Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143134343

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (531 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14