Starting a sentence with And or But
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Starting a sentence with And or But
I would really like to know your opinion on this subject. There are times that I really want to use these words but I can't, and I have to struggle to find an alternative or change my whole sentence around.
“there have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious.
-masculine”
― Nayyirah Waheed
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Actually, this subject can turn into a philosophical discussion as there are people who really get their back-hairs up whenever they perceive a broken rule. In the legal or political realm, this question is argued all the way up into the Supreme Court: What takes precedence: the letter of the law, or the law's intent?
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And you can grammatical begin a sentence with and or but, provided it is a complete thought. But I would avoid doing so in technical, legal or business writing.
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I agree with you, although I've been taught to never begin a sentence with And or But, there are times where I feel it is necessary (but not in things like legal documents).AA1495 wrote:I've always felt the need to begin sentences with those. I've always been told that it was grammatically wrong though, atleast for formal writing. I guess that still holds
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EDIT: It occurs to me that Poe does this in the third stanza of The Raven.
And in the poem it seems to work *LOL*.
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