Thanks, Tim. What about paragraphs? If you start a sentence with BUT, it should contrast the sentence immediately preceding it, however, if you start a graph with BUT, shouldn't that sentence end the previous graph instead of start the new one? Essentially, any period before BUT should be able to be replace by a comma, no? So, I'm feeling you shouldn't start a graph with BUT, still I'm looking for some advice. <p> <blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Tim Hathcock:
Thanks, Lawrence, I believe I will now have this song (http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/gilly/S ... ction.html) running through my head all day.<p>To answer your question, I refer to a fellow testy copy editor, Bill Walsh, who says it is OK to begin a sentence with and, or, but and however in his book, Lapsing Into a Comma. Bill goes against some conventional wisdoms on this and makes convincing arguments why.<p>Of course, he also likes host as a verb, which I am beginning to see that I will just have to live with.<p> <hr></blockquote><p>[ July 23, 2002: Message edited by: Lawrence Carrel ]</p>