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[scottyboy]

Originally Posted by Slutbags McGee

Well at Skene Square Primary and Alford Primary I was always told off for starting a sentence with "because".

The only reason I was ever given was "it's not a proper sentence if you do!"

Not to hijack the thread again, but if you're interested:

Your primary teachers didn't understand what they were teaching. The word "because" is a subordinating conjunction (i.e. a connecting word) and will always (I think) be part of a subordinate clause (a clause being a group of words containing a verb). Subordinate clauses cannot be proper sentences in themselves.

"Because I like calling you an asspiece" is not a sentence. But what Tubthumper meant in full is: "I haven't put you on my igonore list because I like calling you an asspiece". Or simply: "I like calling you an asspiece". Those are both sentences. That first sentence can also be written: "Because I like calling you an asspiece, I haven't put you on my ignore list." i.e. a full, proper sentence starting with "because". The same applies to "however", "although", "therefore" etc. What Cloud perhaps, instinctively meant was "You put 'because' at the start of that would-be-sentence, therefore now it's not a sentence. Ha!"

Exciting stuff.

[Le Stu]

I'm so glad that my primary school teachers were wrong.

The other thing they told me to do was stop writing in script because 'we're not doing that yet'

[Old Gold]

Of course, smiley faces in the middle of school essays are frowned upon also, but hey, it's a casual internet forum. Let's go fucking nuts.