Howard Posner wrote: > Stewart McCoy wrote: > > >>If we corrected each other's mistakes in English, we'd be here all >>day. > > > And wasting time at that, since it would largely be the blind leading the > blind. > > >>1) One should not normally begin a sentence with "But", since "but" >>is a word used to co-ordinate two parts of a sentence. > > > I'm not sure what "normally" means here. But real-life writers of repute > begin sentences w ithButallthetime.Here'sasamplefromworks > available online, and which can therefore be searched electronically: > > Charles Dickens begins 301 sente ncesinGreatExpectationswithBut. > > Jane Austen begins 293 sent encesinEmmawithBut. > > George Bernard Shaw starts 61 sentences in "The Perfect Wagnerite" with > "But." > > Robert Louis Stevenson starts 139 sentences in "Treasure Island" with "But." > > Thorsten Veblen starts 161 sentences in "The Theory of the Leisure Class" > with "But." > > H.G. Wells starts 95 sentences in "The Time Machine" with "But." > > Charles Darwin starts 332 sentences in "The Origin of Species" with "But." > > Winston Churchill starts 256 sentences in "The River War" with "But." >
I think I had a good reason to mention the (Old) Arcadia: 1034 sentences start with "But". Rainer To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
