What is the rule regarding the use of a comma when the word "during" appears at the beginning of a sentence? During church the child whimpered incessantly. During church, the child whimp...

May 7, 2016 · I'm from New England, and I can tell you we don't use first/last of the day/week in common parlance. Seems like a more formal or romanticized way of saying beginning/end.

The beginning of the century is a period of time which is short compared to the century but rather long otherwise; Some people may use this phrase to mean the first decade or even longer. I …

The prior sentence seems relevant, however, some people are beginning to doubt this. Otherwise, why not remove the however so the sentence is concise - some people are beginning to doubt …

While writing a rhetorical question I ran into a case where it seemed natural to start a sentence with "I.e": How do we handle the case when the list is empty? I.e., if the filter matched no entr...

But to "start" marks the actual/exact time of launching an activity (to understand more clearly, consider these two examples: This is just the beginning [meaning, all the initial period] .

11 I think from the beginning puts a little more emphasis and focus on the significance of the beginning. If you were talking about a business, perhaps "he" was there in the planning …

I've sometimes heard people use rather for connecting two sentences where the second one sets counterexample to something negated in the first. This is not a meaningful sentence. Rather, …

Teaching what is an incomplete sentence is a different issue from when the use of incomplete sentences is or is not appropriate. Also, I have a problem with any hard rule about "never start …

24 Yes. For example is capitalized at the beginning of a sentence, so is its Latin equivalent exempli gratia, and so is its abbreviated form e.g.