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Starting a sentence with “And?

Can I start a sentence with “And”?

  

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file banana 886 Can I start a sentence with “And”? It is not often a good idea, but it is possible in informal writing.

  • file banana 886 Can I start a sentence with “And”?
  • It is not often a good idea, but it is possible in informal writing.
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file banana 886Can I start a sentence with “And”?

It is not often a good idea, but it is possible in informal writing.

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Can I start a sentence with “And”?

It's fine when, for example, two sentences might be spoken by different people, one adding to what the other said:

A: She's a good teacher.

B: And her students really like her.

Note that when we separate sentences like this, the coordinator "and" goes with the se

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There is an ancient rule of grammar that coordinating conjunctions (and, but, so) are not to be used as the first word in a sentence. This rule, like a few others, is broken multiple times every day by excellent writers. This "rule" has been discarded the garbage pail along with a few others. And it is about time!

The answer to your question is "Yes, you can. But be careful about using

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