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Conjunctions and lists

Coordinating conjunctions

Lists in a sentence

Lists connected by coordinating conjunctions

Contrasting two things

Starting a sentence with the conjunctions and or but

Starting with because

Using neither nor

Correlative conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Starting with ‘because’

Like ‘and’ and ‘but’, you can also start a sentence with the subordinating conjunction ‘because’, as long as you’re careful. When you slap ‘because’ at the beginning of a clause, it usually subordinates the clause, turning it into a dependent or subordinate clause. This means you’ve got to make sure you have an independent clause in the same sentence, otherwise it will be a sentence fragment.

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