Crystal,
Your encouragement of your students is a matter of choice, but I don't
see that beginning a
sentence with "Because" is incorrect.
tj
On Wednesday 04/13/2011 at 10:01 am, Crystal Edmonds wrote:
>
>
> The subordinating conjunction "because" is used to link the dependent
> clause to the independent clause. I encourage my students to place
> such subordinate clauses at the end of the sentence so that there are
> no errors in comma usage. However, many students want to begin a
> sentence with "because". While it is not incorrect, the sentence
> structure does appear awkward.
>
> Using "for" illustrates students' sentence variety. That is important
> for me.
>
>
>
>
> C. Edmonds, Chair
> Associate in Arts
> English and Humanities
> Robeson Community College
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> >>> On 4/13/2011 at 8:52 AM, in message
> <[log in to unmask]>,
> "Katz, Seth" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Traditional lists of coordinating conjunctions included "for" (hence
> the "F" in the acronym "FANBOYS" for remembering the list of
> coordinating conjunctions); but it seems to me that the use of "for"
> as a coordinating conjunction in English has largely been succeeded by
> the use of "because."
>
> I find I'm not sure here what the distinction is between a
> coordinating conjunction and a subordinating conjunction. Help?
>
> Dr. Seth Katz
> Assistant Professor
> Department of English
> Bradley University
>
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> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of T. J.
> Ray
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> Subject: Re: Punctuation Question
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>
> I believe you're right in thinking he feels this is a coordinate
> conjunction. My understanding is that
> "because" clauses are dependent and hence should not be preceded with
> a comma. I just
> wanted a number of opinions before I bring it to the committee's
> attention, folks who evidently
> don't see a problem with it as no one had marked any of these before I
> saw the MSS.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 04/13/2011 at 5:43 am, "Dixon, Jack" wrote:
>
> Focusing on the obvious, I suspect the writer believes that "because"
> functions as a coordinating conjunction rather than a subordinating.
> Does the student punctuate most subordinating clauses that follow the
> independent clause this way, or do he make this mistake with "because"
> only?
>
> I seem to remember that Martha Kolln in _Rhetorical Grammar_ addresses
> the few instances when terminal subord. clauses are set off with
> commas.
>
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> Subject: Punctuation Question
>
> I have a doctoral student who produces sentences like the following:
>
> "This quatrain cannot be read in isolation at all, because the syntax
> is
> inherent and incomplete on its own."
>
> My question is not a search for whatever he meant to say but is about
> his punctuation: the comma. Comments are welcome.
>
> T. J.
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