But you said it was OK to start sentences with conjunctions. “Because” is a conjunction. And if you take off “Because,” it’s a whole sentence. Why is it wrong? Thus arose the lesson that not all ...

I'm writing some material about transitions for the Intensive Editing Workshop I'm teaching at UCLA in January, and it reminded me about the mythical "rule" saying that you can't start sentences ...

Another reader, Sneha from Vijayawada, had sent in a similar query: “Is it grammatically correct to start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction?” Conjunction, by definition, is a word or ...

Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence. NARRATOR: Well you can’t just force them together. You have to coordinate them. You need a ...

Is it correct to start a sentence with a conjunction? Here is a query from a reader of this column. Sanjay Saralaya writes, “Can one start a sentence with words and phrases such as as ...

How time flies. It seems like just yesterday I wrote a column debunking the myth that it's wrong to start a sentence with a conjunction. And it seems like just the day before yesterday that I ...

It seems like just yesterday I was writing a column debunking the myth that it’s wrong to start a sentence with a conjunction. And it seems like just the day before yesterday that I wrote the ...

Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence. NARRATOR: Well you can’t just force them together. You have to coordinate them. You need a ...