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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

For long ago vs. long ago

Hi. Please help. Do they mean different things?

1. For long ago, there had been famine.
2. Long ago, there had been famine.
  

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Hi, #1 is not correct English. Clive

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Hi,

#1 is not correct English.

Clive
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Hi. Thank you. Could we take the word "For" in the first example sentence as a coordinate conjunction, even though I think starting a sentence with a coordinate conjunction might not be good style.

1. For long ago, there had been famine.
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Hi,

I think you mean in the sense of 'because'.
eg He stayed home yesterday, for he was sick.

It would be incorrect grammar to write this as two sentences,
eg He stayed home yesterday. For he was sick.
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Hi. Thank you, again.

You wrote:

I think you mean in the sense of 'because'.
eg He stayed home yesterday, for he was sick

Since, in my opinion, the conjunction "for" in the above sentence functions roughly the same as the word "because," I think, it would be inappropriate, if not incorrect, to m
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Hi. I still have a lingering question. I think although starting a sentence with the word "for" when it has the sense of "because" might be incorrect or perhaps incorrect, there seem to be plenty of people who write their sentences with the conjunction "for" in that sense. Do you think all those people are incorrect? Maybe the situation is synonymous with cases of starting a sentence with the con
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Hi,

A great deal of our spoken English is fragmentary, It's only in some grammar books that people converse casually in perfect sentences.Often, we don't even complete a sentence in a conversation before the other person interrupts, or even before we ourselves decide to express some new thought.

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