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Important Improvements |
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Important Improvements |
After writing my first novel, I became a grammar fiend: I went to the library and looked up everything I could think of in one book on grammar and/or punctuation after another. As I studied and searched and scribbled, I thought, "If they’re going to write sample sentences, why not write fun sample sentences?" Karen Elizabeth Gordon fulfilled my wish with sample sentences such as "She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm." Thanks, Karen Elizabeth! (Cathryn Pisarski, Editor of Cune Magazine) The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise). The sentences are intoxicating – "How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"– but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." |
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