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Daniel
- 2005-03-24
In response to don't start a sentence with 'AND' (q)
It is not nice to start "flaming" in this situation. It is better to just reason this and come to an answer that everyone can agree on. Consider this: Using the rules of rhetoric, you can start a sentence with "And" because we mark independent clauses with coordinating conjunctions or "fanboys" as some like to call them (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So). So if you are starting an independent clause, which has a subject and a verb, then you can surely start it with an "And". It does not contradict the rules of parallelism, the rhetorical rule for having both sides of the FANBOY be of equal "weight" or importance.
-Daniel
Messages In This Thread
- The ESL instructor: animal, vegetable, or ... BS artist? -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-11-01
- don't start a sentence with 'AND' -- q -- 2004-11-02
- Depends on your point of view *Link* -- Stranger Passing By -- 2005-02-03
- Rules are made to be broken. And I'll write any way I like. -- OnceWritten -- 2004-11-11
- q2 "and" -- the observer -- 2004-11-03
- Make sure you observe the classics too -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-11-03
- The A#al Retentives Guide to the Great-Grammar-Icing on the ESL cake for Dummies.... -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-03
- games, dummies and a#al retentives -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-11-03
- The complete id##ts guide................ -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-03
- May I.. -- Ferpectly right! -- 2004-11-04
- Good point and good timing :-) -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-11-04
- Drunk on your own verbosity! -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-04
- Good point and good timing :-) -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-11-04
- May I.. -- Ferpectly right! -- 2004-11-04
- The complete id##ts guide................ -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-03
- games, dummies and a#al retentives -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-11-03
- The A#al Retentives Guide to the Great-Grammar-Icing on the ESL cake for Dummies.... -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-03
- EXPOITS! Soooooo #@#!@ many o' dem! -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-11-02
- And... -- Ferpectly right! -- 2004-11-02
- Different horses for different courses! -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-02
- Rules are made to be broken. And I'll write any way I like. -- OnceWritten -- 2004-11-11
- The fat lady threw away the grammar book!!! -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-01
- A fact is a fact ... but, that doesn't make it right! -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-11-01
- Don't use the G word !!!!!!!!!!!! -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-11-01
- Oral -- Dos -- 2004-11-02
- Ditto in Thailand -- Robert Newman -- 2004-11-02
- ESL pedagogy continues......... -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-01
- Bottoms Up Arrogant One? -- Beatrix -- 2004-11-01
- Oral -- Dos -- 2004-11-02
- Don't use the G word !!!!!!!!!!!! -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-11-01
- Zitat des tages -- x21 -- 2004-11-01
- Ich danke Ihnen fr ....??? -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-11-01
- AO=Austrian dialect -- x21 -- 2004-11-01
- Look! He's a poet and doesn't know it! -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-11-01
- Das ist ein teil deines problems -- x21 -- 2004-11-01
- Look! He's a poet and doesn't know it! -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-11-01
- AO=Austrian dialect -- x21 -- 2004-11-01
- Insightful -- A. -- 2004-11-01
- The BIG picture -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-11-01
- Depends on your point of view *Link* -- Stranger Passing By -- 2005-02-03
- don't start a sentence with 'AND' -- q -- 2004-11-02
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