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title: "Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing"
brand: "constance hale"
price: "KD 9.42"
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reviews_count: 11
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# Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing

**Brand:** constance hale
**Price:** KD 9.42
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing by constance hale
- **How much does it cost?** KD 9.42 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Hale is among the very best.
  

*by P***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2022*

Hale's prose is brisk & engaging. Her advice is forthright, solid, & inspiring. Her two books belong on every aspiring writer's bookshelf.I want to say that I was surprised at the thin, almost cheap, quality of the book itself, as though Norton, not appreciating their author, was cutting corners in a shortsighted, chintzy manner.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch
  

*by L***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2013*

There's no question that Constance Hale, author of two other books on style, understands good writing and clearly explains the mechanics of it in entertaining ways.  I say this as someone with an M.A. in Linguistics and a published book.  After reading "Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch," I feel like Hale took me and my flabby verbs to the gym and put all of us through a tough regimen that beefed us up.  (Yes, that final "up" is okay because it's a phrasal verb, not a prepositional verb.) In case the reader needs it, Hale explicitly gives permission in the introduction to jump around and read the book in chunks.  She begins with a history of English verbs, moves through a study of tenses, phrases and sentence structure and concludes with a hefty appendix section that clarifies pesky and confusing verbs (lay, lain, lain vs. lie, lay, lain and wreak/reek/wreck).  In the process, she packs in plenty of examples from an array of strong writers and speakers--Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barett Browning to Cormac McCarthy and George W. Bush.  "Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch" is a good read and a terrific resource for people who are serious about writing well.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent Reference Book on the Use of Verbs
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2013*

This is an excellent reference book, telling you all you can possibly want to know about verbs. It's not the sort of book you can sit down and read, so my review is based on browsing a few chapters. One was particularly illuminating for me--that of melody in writing. It was an "aha" moment when I finally realized why the book I had cut and cut and cut because it was too long no longer pleased me. I had cut all the music from my prose! So I have learned something valuable about editing--the hard way. If you're going to cut, do it to entire segments. Don't just go through cutting all those "unnecessary' words and phrases!

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*Last updated: 2026-02-07*