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For explanations of correct Standard English that contradict widely-taught (but incorrect) "grammar rules".
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Is the SVOMPT word order necessary in creating a sentence?
Word order is very important in English because it is so lightly inflected.
The core SVO sequence is usually obligatory in declarative sentences, and there are fixed transformations for negatives and …
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Why do people, incorrectly, begin a sentence with the word "But"?
There is nothing inherently wrong with beginning a sentence with any conjunction, including but. Some stylists have deprecated it, and some English teachers still enforce it; but it has never been any …
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If and would in the same sentence
As everybody so far has told you, this “rule” is quite false. FumbleFingers, J.R. and Matt have given you quite enough counterexamples to prove that.
But it appears that yours is not an isolated misu …
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Is ending a sentence with a preposition acceptable?
Carefully avoiding terminal prepositions has been, for at least a generation, a dead letter. There are doubtless people my age who still practice it; but nobody except a few cranks think it a defensib …
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Should we not start sentences with "And" , "But" ,"So" and "Because"?
SUPPLEMENTARY TO waiwai933’s ANSWER
There is another reason teachers deprecate starting sentences with conjunctions. In oral cultures (which includes children learning to write) there is a very stron …
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