Talk:Follett's Modern American Usage

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Lest anyone reading these comments conclude that, if anything, Follett was excessively traditional or prescriptive, it is worth quoting briefly from Follett's entry on the commonest English conjunction in which he is at pains to sweep away what he considers a long-outdated and erroneous stricture: "and. A prejudice lingers from the days of schoolmarmish rhetoric that a sentence should not begin with and. The supposed rule is without foundation in grammar, logic or art. ... "

This may be so, but citation please. Without it, it's unsourced editorializing. 86.151.4.97 (talk) 00:43, 30 April 2012 (UTC)