Includes index.

The sentence : the writer's most important tool
Who cares? Making sentences meaningful to your reader
Conjunctions that kill : subordination
Movable objects : understanding phrases and clauses
Size matters : short versus long sentences
Words gone wild : sentences that say nothing, or worse
Words gone mild : choosing specific words over vague ones
A frequently overstated case : the truth about adverbs
Are your relatives essential? Relative clauses
Antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers : prepositional phrases
Dangler danger : participles and other danglers
The writing was ignored by the reader : passives
You will have been conjugating : other matters of tense
The being and the doing are the killing of your writing : nominalizations
The the : not-so-definite definite articles
The writer and his father lamented his ineptitude : unclear antecedents
To know them is to hating them : faulty and funky parallels
Taking the punk out of punctuation : the problem with semicolons and parentheses
You don't say : descriptive quotation attributions
Trimming the fat : expressions that weigh down your sentences
The major overhaul : streamlining even the most problematic sentences
On breaking the 'rules" : knowing when to can the canons

"This humorous writing book from grammar columnist June Casagrande focuses on the sentence as the unit of meaning in writing, showing writing students and professional writers alike how to craft bold, effective, reader-serving sentences"--Provided by publisher.