Gary Schnabl, on 1 Mar 2010: > The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. > sits atop my old trusty P4, and I knew in advance that it actually > promotes the use of starting sentences with "and" in appropriate use > cases. Cf. paragraph 5.191 in the CMoS and check it out...
Although I was aware that the CMoS is our bible, I'm not [yet] familiar with it. Like Claire, I'm British and so I expect to find myself thrown when sentences that seem blatantly wrong to me are considered acceptable. That said, I'm particularly fond of beginning sentences with "however" and have never seen that as being a transgression. Two rules to remember: a) we are writing for an international audience, not all of whom have English as their main language, and b) languages are alive and mutating all the time. It's perfectly normal for there to be no single "correct way". The CMoS way has been selected; the CMoS we must strive to follow. P.S. I don't like the semi-colon in that last sentence but, for the life of me, I don't have the brain capacity tonight to work out what might be better... -- James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
