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Originally Posted by TheTreeOfKnowing
Who are you talking to.
Try not to start a solo sentence thought with a conjunction.
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but
[Middle English, from Old English butan; see ud- in Indo-European roots.]
Usage Note: But may be used to begin a sentence at all levels of style.
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It is frequently asserted that sentences beginning with and or but express "incomplete thoughts" and are therefore incorrect.
But this rule has been ridiculed by grammarians for decades, and the stricture has been ignored by writers from Shakespeare to Joyce Carol Oates.
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What, grammatically, are
you expressing in
your incomplete sentence fragment above?
And why?