Doesn't the "for" have the same effect here that "therefore" would 
have?  Does that not
make the sentence one that cannot stand alone?

tj



On Sunday 03/20/2011 at 8:26 am, Robert Yates   wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Would you consider the sentence that the students diagrammed an 
> appropriate independent sentence?
>
> In other words, is the "for" just a coordinating conjunction beginning 
> the entire string or is it a subordinating conjunction?
>
> Bob Yates
>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Scott Catledge <[log in to unmask]> 03/19/11 8:26 PM >>>
> In a final examination for Senior English grammar in a religious 
> preparatory
> academy all students who passed the course were able to diagram the
> following sentence accurately for the purely grammatical section of 
> the
> examination:
>
> "For I know Whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to 
> keep
> that which I have committed
> unto Him against that day."
>
> The students also wrote a final argumentive paper in class on a topic
> assigned in class that day was graded for grammar, word choice, 
> sentence
> structure, spelling, and critical reasoning.
> Scott Catledge
>
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