"In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style,Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing." --Publisher's description.

" ... grows out of my 1971 book, Grammar as style."--Acknowledgments.

Short sentences -- Noun phrases -- Verb phrases -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Prepositions -- Conjunctions and coordination -- Dependent clauses -- Sentence openers and inversion -- Free modifiers : branching sentences -- The appositive -- Interrogative, imperative, exclamatory -- Parallelism -- Cohesion -- Syntactic symbolism.