《大学英语高级读写教程》分为两册，本书为第一册——英语句式精要，旨在加强学生英语读写的语句功底。

全书主要包括三部分内容：句子结构、修辞句式和句子技巧。第一部分对大学英语阶段的书面语句法知识进行全面梳理和概括；第二部分和第三部分是建立在句法基础上的高级语言现象——修辞句式和句子技巧。

Part One Essential Sentences

  Unit 1 Types of Sentence Structures

1.1 Classification of Sentences

1.2 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 2 Basic Sentence Patterns

2.1 Five Basic Sentence Patterns

2.2 The Existential “There Be...”Structure

2.3 Elements of a Sentence and Their Forms

2.4 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 3 The Essential Sentence Element--Finite Verbs

3.1 Tense and Voice

3.2 The Subjunctive Mood

3.3 Deductive “Must”

3.4 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 4 The Important Sentence Element—Non-finites

4.1 Functions of Non-finites

4.2 Tenses and Voices of Non-finites

4.3 Commonly Used Non-finite Structures

4.4 The Idiomatic Use of Non-finites

4.5 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 5 Sentence Combining—Co-ordination

5.1 Coordinate(Compound) Sentences

5.2 Coordinate Conjunctions

5.3 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 6 Sentence Combining—Subordination

6.1 The Noun Clause

6.2 The Attributive Clause

6.3 The Adverbial Clause

6.4 Reading and Writing Skills

6.5 Reading and Writing Activities

Part Two Effective Sentences

  Unit 1 Sentence Emphasis

1.1 The Emphatic “It”

1.2 The Anticipatory “It”(The Introductory “It”)

1.3 The Auxiliary Verb “Do”

1.4 The What-clause

 1.5 The Rhetorical Question

 1.6 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 2 Sentence Inversion and Cleft

 2.1 Inversion

 2.2 Cleft(The Split Sentence)

 2.3 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 3 Negation

 3.1 Double Negation

 3.2 Partial Negation(Semi-negation)

 3.3 Transferred Negation

 3.4 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 4 Ellipsis

 4.1 Ellipsis of the Identical Part

 4.2 Ellipsis in Coordinate Sentences

 4.3 Ellipsis in Adverbial Clauses

 4. 4 Ellipsis in Existential “There Be ...”

 4.5 Acceptable Use of Fragment

 4.6 Reading and Writing Activities

Unit 5 Parallelism

 5.1 The Effectiveness of the Parallel Structure

 5.2 Parallel Structures

 5.3 Parallelism Used in Reading and Writing

 5.4 Reading and Writing Skills

 5.5 Reading and Writing Activities

Unit 6 The Independent Structure--The Nominative Absolute Construction

 6.1 The Effective Use of the Nominative Absolute Construction

 6.2 The Formation of the Nominative Absolute Construction

 6.3 Reading and Writing Activities

Unit 7 The Independent Structure--Parenthesis

 7.1 The Rhetorical Use of Parenthesis

7.2 Various Parenthesis Constructions

7.3 Semi-parenthesis

7.4 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 8 Sentences with Abstract Nouns

8.1 The Rhetorical Function of the Abstiact Noun

8.2 Commonly Used Expressions

8.3 Reading Skills

8.4 Reading and Writing Activities

  General Exercises for Part Two

Part Three Sentence Skills

  Unit 1 Unity

1.1 Sentence Unity

1.2 Sentences(Paragraph) Unity

1.3 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 2 Coherence

2.1 Sentence Coherence

2.2 Sentences(Paragraph) Coherence

2.3 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 3 Euphony

3.1 Effective Expressions

3.2 The Employment of Rhymes

  Unit 4 Conciseness

4.1 Ways to Achieve Conciseness

4.2 Reading and Writing Activities

  Unit 5 Clarity

  Unit 6 Variety

6.1 To Vary Sentence Length

6.2 To Vary Sentence Structures

6.3 Loose and Periodic Sentences

  General Exercises for Part Three

Appendix Translation for Reference

Bibliography