![]() ![]() The second point of irritation is that once you think about this superstition for even a little while you’ll realize that choosing these three words to single out is purely arbitrary. We would lose a slew of legitimate rhetorical options in prose (…not to imply that there’s an organized body out there “legitimizing” our sentence structures, but I suspect you’ll take my point). Because if, as some have suggested, this superstition is true, then I would not be able to get away with this sentence. The first is that it’s a stylistic shackle. There are two things that should get most readers (and writers) irritated by those who insist that you can’t begin sentences with these words. Let’s pick this one apart a bit and consult some authorities. Writers in English (not to mention speakers of it) have been starting sentences with and, but, and because for centuries. Should you? That’s a separate matter, which I’m not even going to touch. Can you use and, but, or because at the start of a sentence? ![]()
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