I know it's wrong, but I do it all the time or else my sentences would go on forever.
Learn English – Is it really incorrect to start a sentence with “and”
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I know it's wrong, but I do it all the time or else my sentences would go on forever.
Best Answer
What makes you think this is an error? All the greatest writers of English have started sentences with and. Mark Liberman, linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania wrote about this mythical “rule” in Language Log in 2005:
So, my answer to OP’s original question is “mu”: your question assumes something which is false.
Edit:
The rule forbidding conjunctions at the beginning of sentences—“No Initial Coordinators” (NIC)—is something that even the most prickly old usage writers have rejected as Not A Real Rule. Arnold Zwicky wrote on Language Log in 2006 (emphasis added):
And Mark Liberman wrote more recently on Language Log: