10 Strict Grammar Rules It’s Probably Safe to Ignore

Starting a sentence with a conjunction

This rule has been drilled into grade schoolers’ heads: “Never begin a sentence with and, but, or or.” It turns out there’s no rule against doing so. According to Oxford Dictionary Myth Debunkers, “The argument against using a preposition to introduce a sentence is that such a sentence expresses an incomplete thought (or ‘fragment’) and is therefore incorrect.” But if it has a subject and predicate (as in “And then I went home.”) it’s a sentence. If it doesn’t (“and then home”) it’s not.

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