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[child] Wisdom of the Child
While reading The Wee Free Men aloud to me:
“You don’t start a sentence with ‘and’! That’s against the law! Or at least the rules of writing.”
Posted: 8:26 am Sat November 08 2008 |
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Jaws
November 8th, 2008 at 10:28 amHowever — at least as quoted by The Parent — there appears to be no problem with starting a sentence with “or”. And that is all that I, as a nonnative speaker of English, have to say on the matter.
tetar
November 8th, 2008 at 1:48 pm4 out of 5 people will tell you y’can’t start a sentence with a numeral, which they’d call a number, nor have two apostrophes in the same word. But hey.