title: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
author:  Constance Hale 
description: <b>Sin and Sintax</b> is one of the rare books that recognizesand even celebratesthe fact that good writing has little to do with rules and much to do with a true understanding of effective prose. Connie Hale provides us an invaluable service by showing us what works and what doesnt in the real world, regardless of what the pedants say.<br />Jesse Sheidlower, Senior Editor, Random House Dictionaries<br /><br />This new grammar book islight-years ahead of what youd read in eighth-grade English: With vivid, contemporary examples of what to do and what not to do, its fun to read.<br /><i>Observer<br /><br /></i>Probably the hippest grammar guide ever written, this book shows how to write for results, wholesome or subversive. <br /><i>American Way</i>
zlib_text: **Sin determinar**
  
  >  **Sin determinar**
  
  > ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN
  > TWELVE THIRTEEN FOURTEEN FIFTEEN SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN EIGHTEEN NINETEEN TWENTY
  > TWENTY-ONE TWENTY-TWO TWENTY-THREE TWENTY-FOUR TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY-SIX
  > TWENTY-SEVEN TWENTY-EIGHT TWENTY-NINE THIRTY THIRTY-ONE THIRTY-TWO THIRTY-
  > THREE THIRTY-FOUR THIRTY-FIVE THIRTY-SIX EPILOGUE THE END
  
  > DEXTER BY DESIGN
  
  > JEFF LINDSAY
  
  > For Hilary, as always
  
  >  **Sin determinar**
  
  >  **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
  > It is impossible to write in a vacuum. The air for this book was provided by
  > Bear, Pookie, and Tink.
  
  > My gratitude to Jason Kaufman and his aide de camp, Caleb, for their
  > enormous help in shaping the manuscript.
  
  > And as ever, special thanks to Nick Ellison, who made it all happen.
  
  >  **Sin determinar**
  
  >  **ONE**
  
  > PARDONEZ MOI, MONSIEUR. Ou EST LA LUNE? Alors, mon ancien, la lune est id,
  > ouvre la Seine, enorme, rouge et hutnide.
  
  > Merci, mon ami, I see it now Et act