wybralem kilka kawalkow:
>>Schoolteachers may have laid down a prohibition against the initial and to counteract elementary school students' tendency to begin every sentence with and. As Follett and Amis point out, the same superstition has plagued but. See but (A) & SUPERSTITIONS (D).
>>It is rank superstition that this coordinating conjunction cannot properly begin a sentence....
>>A prejudice lingers from the days of schoolmarmish rhetoric that a sentence should not begin with and. The supposed rule is without foundation in grammar, logic, or art.
>> And can join separate sentences and their meanings just as well as but can both join sentences and disjoin meanings." Wilson Follett, MAU at 64.
>> "Many years ago schoolteachers insisted that it was improper to begin a sentence with and, but this convention is now outmoded. Innumerable respected writers use and at the beginning of a sentence." William Morris & Mary Morris, Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage 37 (2d ed. 1985).
>>And the idea that and must not begin a sentence, or even a paragraph, is an empty superstition. The same goes for but. Indeed either word can give unimprovably early warning of the sort of thing that is to follow." Kingsley Amis, The King's English 14 (1997).
>> The very best writers find occasion to begin sentences with and—e.g.: ................
p.s. wow :) finally kicked in, thanks NSA
edytowany przez savagerhino: 09 lis 2013