This week’s One From The Vault is a rant on arbitrary and incorrect “rules” of English insisted upon by some teachers, editors and pedants:
There is no excuse for thinking that you can’t start a sentence with “There is.” And I should add that I think it is fine to start a sentence with “and.” But not just and, even but.
Here’s the link
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About Jesse Liberty
Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses.
His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025.
Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.
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