Quote Originally Posted by ironchef
According to my former English professor who had a Ph.D in English and has taught at the college and high school level for over a quarter of a century, "and" can be used to start a sentence. I'm pretty inclined to trust his word, so I'm sticking to that.
As QD stated, it is not technically a rule per se, but it is discouraged to be used unless it makes absolute sense to do so. 99% of the time it creates a sentence fragment.


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