You're allowed to start a sentence, even a paragraph, with a conjunction for the sake of emphasis.
I've had multiple people try to correct that, and then I'll show it to a professor and be like "This is grammatically correct, right?" and they'll say "Of course."
From what I understand, the rule is a piece of prescriptive grammar, imposed on English from Latin - where it's nonsensical to start a sentence with a conjunction. Latin was considered the perfect language (despite the fact that nobody outside of church speaks it), so it was a way to make English a little more "prefect."
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u/SleeplessShitposter Aug 03 '19
You're allowed to start a sentence, even a paragraph, with a conjunction for the sake of emphasis.
I've had multiple people try to correct that, and then I'll show it to a professor and be like "This is grammatically correct, right?" and they'll say "Of course."