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with what are you never suppose to start an english sentence with
  

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Anonymous W ith what are you never suppose d to start an english sentence with ? Never start a sentence with the same preposition that you end it with when the final preposition is a structural repetition of the first.

  • Anonymous W ith what are you never suppose d to start an english sentence with ?
  • Never start a sentence with the same preposition that you end it with when the final preposition is a structural repetition of the first.
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AnonymousWith what are you never supposed to start an english sentence with?
Never start a sentence with the same preposition that you end it with when the final preposition is a structural repetition of the first.
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Old school thought: no conjunction at the beginning; no preposition at the end.

But that is something we are gradually getting more comfortable with.
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Philip
But that is something we are gradually getting more comfortable with.
Well said!
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Anonymouswith what are you never suppose to start an english sentence with
The uncapitalized word i, to name one.

CJ
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CalifJim
Anonymouswith what are you never suppose to start an english sentence with
The uncapitalized word i, to name one.CJ
And more generally, any uncapitalized word.
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With a misspelt word.
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AlpheccaStarsAnd more generally, any uncapitalized word.
That brings up a question of my own. I always leave a word uncapitalized if it's an italicized word that is the subject of discussion. For example, a student asks about the verb have. In that post, if have begins a sentence, I do it like this:

have is one of the auxiliary
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Hi CJ,

I usually use a capital in such a case. And I often put the word in quotes.

It's probably because I am still influenced by how I would do it if I were writing it by hand. I can't write italics with pen and paper. Not that anybody seems to handwrite, these d
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Hi,

with what are you never suppose to start an english sentence with

How about considering the whole topic of punctuation?

eg a question mark
eg a period.

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CliveHi CJ, I usually use a capital in such a case. And I often put the word in quotes.

Clive
To me, using quotation marks is the answer. One can capitalize or not as appropriate.
"have" follows 'I', 'you', 'we' and 'they'.
"Have" is one of the words that can start a question.

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