Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing

by Constance Hale

Book Overview

Writers know it instinctively: Verbs make a sentence zing. Grammar gurus agree: Drama in writing emerges from the interplay of a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb). Constance Hale, the best-selling author of Sin and Syntax, zooms in on the colorful world of verbs. Synthesizing the pedagogical and the popular, the scholarly and the scandalous, Hale combines the wit of Bill Bryson with the practical wisdom of William Zinsser. She marches through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393081168
• ISBN13: 9780393081169
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"