When I think of slash, I think of a metal-rock guitarist with a black hat and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth (how did it never fall out?). And as someone who loves punctuation and grammar, it says something that my first thought about a slash is Guns N’ Roses. It’s not that oftenContinue reading “Slashes”
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And but because: Beginning with Conjunctions
One of the lessons we all learned (I assume) in school was to not begin a sentence with a conjunction. And and but are for connecting elements within a sentence, but not for connecting actual sentences. I’m guilty of teaching this ‘”rule” as well. I definitely encouraged students to avoid using conjunctions to start sentences.Continue reading “And but because: Beginning with Conjunctions”