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Originally Posted by paul8488
On a separate note, I learned in school that you were never to start a sentence with 'But'! If journalists in major news outlets can't use proper grammar, can we rag on kids (and adults for that matter) for not doing it either? Was I taught wrong... is 'But' acceptable?
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Technically you're not supposed to begin the sentence with it, but if phonetically it seems to sound good, people will just use it nonetheless. I've pulled that off in a few papers this year and haven't been marked for it once.