David's Extra English Class

My top 5 books. Kafka  On The Shore      Haruki Murakami Comprising two distinct but interrelated plots, the narrative runs back and forth between both plots, taking up each plotline in alternating chapters. The odd-numbered chapters tell the 15-year-old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an  Oedipal  curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister. [1]  After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in  Takamatsu , run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the intelligent and more welcoming Oshima. There he spends his days reading the unabridged  Richard Francis Burton  translation of  One Thousand and One Nights  and the collected works of  Natsume Sōseki  until the police begin inquiring after him in connection with a brutal murder. No Samaritan By Sean Gunning Debut Poetry Collection. 48 poems about  loss, lo...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRhJkVt096QL3uOs4CHpq2Q6uFFJDZK68XbHGuRP0nXfp1DtKdJWT5wcKfuTL-5WjjGnpV8f_qRPS_H/pub Click the above link to read a great short story by David Gunning.

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A bird never flew on one wing. Expressing the need for a second helping. One is not enough you need a second one, for example, the 2nd drink.

So…can we start a sentence with and?   So the heart of the ban on starting a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’ seems to lie in the fact that they are coordinating rather than subordinating conjunctions, and as such are typically used to link elements of equal status  within  a sentence. The argument against using ‘and’ or ‘but’ to introduce a sentence is that such a sentence expresses an incomplete thought (or ‘fragment’) and is therefore incorrect. However, this is a stylistic preference rather than a grammatical ‘rule’. If your teachers or your organization are inflexible about this issue, then you should respect their opinion, but ultimately, it’s just a point of view and you’re not being ungrammatical. If you want to defend your position, you can say that it’s particularly useful to start a sentence with these conjunctions if you’re aiming to create a dramatic or forceful effect. As the following examples show, the introductory conjunction gives more weight to...