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Re: Grammar in HS (Was: Re: Argument Structures)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, August 25, 2000, 13:19
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, andrew wrote:

> I believe the oldest of these children are of an age where they are > entering universities in New Zild. These are the same children who ten > years ago saw nothing wrong with starting sentences with 'And...' or > didn't recognise the existence of other verbs beyond 'got'.
And just what's wrong with starting sentences with "and"? Various monuments of our literature, notably including the KJV, do it all the time. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "[O]n the whole I'd rather make love than shoot guns [...]" --Eric Raymond