Grammar as Style.
"Grammar as style is a study of grammatical patterns and the way they work in the hands of contemporary professional writers. It is addressed to anyone interested in stylistic theory and practice. I hope it will find readers among teachers and prospective teachers of English; students of composition, creative writing, grammar, literature, stylistics, and literary criticism; and writers outside the classroom who are interested in studying professional techniques. Each chapter, except the first, concentrates on a major syntactic structure or concept and considers its stylistic role in sentences from twentieth century fiction and nonfiction. In all, the book includes fifteen major grammatical topcis and more than a thousand samples of modern prose."--From the preface.