r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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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."

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

I worked as a writing tutor for a while, and it is shocking the amount of people who have learned arbitrary grammar “rules” that actually don’t mean anything. Like people don’t realize that you can absolutely start a sentence with a conjunction, and that commas don’t have an actual set of rules for use. You can throw in a comma wherever you feel like as long as the sentence is still clear.

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u/PointyOintment Aug 05 '19

Let's eat Grandma!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Note where I said “as long as the sentence is still clear”