Starting an essay
Would it be correct to start an essay or just any sentence with the following phrase:
"It is used to be considered that... " does it make sense to say so or it is better to say "It is considered that..." ?
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Would it be correct to start an essay or just any sentence with the following phrase: "It is used to be considered that... Not exactly, but you can start 'It used to be considered that the Sun revolved round the Earth' or 'It was once considered that the Earth was flat.
- Would it be correct to start an essay or just any sentence with the following phrase: "It is used to be considered that...
- Not exactly, but you can start 'It used to be considered that the Sun revolved round the Earth' or 'It was once considered that the Earth was flat.
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Would it be correct to start an essay or just any sentence with the following phrase:
"It is used to be considered that...
Not exactly, but you can start
'It used to be considered that the Sun revolved round the Earth' or
'It was once considered that the Earth was flat.
0Starting an essay with an impersonal passive "it" clause is weak. It is not incorrect grammatically, but it does not draw the reader in with a strong assertion, an incentive to read further.
Not so many years ago in the course of human events, there was a universal belief that the moon was a perfect sphere. Galileo, armed with a primitive home-made telescope, shattered these myths an
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