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"presposition" a pre-position held by a presbyterian.
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"So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"
I just thought that not starting a sentence with a conjunction would be the sort of prescriptivist poppycock you'd subscribe to.
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The question was "So?" I.E. "So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"
Descriptive-grammatically speaking, and ceteris paribus, there is nothing wrong with starting a sentence with a conjunction. Happens all the time. Prescriptive-grammatically speaking it is a solecism (or an enormity).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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The question was "So?" I.E. "So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"Prescriptive-grammatically speaking it is a solecism (or an enormity). Naw. It ain't near big enough to be an enormity.
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miniscule is opposed to majuscule, to be pro forma.
-joe (but I don't think that works in context) friday
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no, miniscule is actually opposed to uncial. I just had to throw my bit of wisdom in there. 
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uncial - relating to or written in majuscule letters
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The question was "So?" I.E. "So what if I (pastor von) began a sentence with a conjunction?"Prescriptive-grammatically speaking it is a solecism (or an enormity). Naw. It ain't near big enough to be an enormity. How 'bout just a normity then?
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