And how do you feel about starting sentences with conjunctions?

I make a point of it. And I do it well.

I think it’s just fine. What you want to avoid is sentence fragments, and they are apt to occur when you begin with a conjunction. But I think you can write a perfectly grammatical sentence that starts with a conjunction. And I also think sentence fragments have their place when they’re used knowingly and with intent (although they don’t belong in formal writing).

No comma after that beginning conjunction, though.

It is perfectly acceptable. And has been for a while. But you better know the ins and outs of the rules before you break them.

But for conjunctions we would have one less School House Rock diddy. And the best one I would say.

It’s wrong.

What is there to feel about?

The rules of grammar are often a mystery to me.

@zenvelo and @cookieman, you both have sentence fragments that illustrate exactly what’s traditionally considered wrong with that usage.

Haha, @cookieman, I see your joke. That “but” isn’t a conjunction. It’s a preposition.

It’s fine. People who say otherwise are succumbing to hypercorrection.

As I learned in my advertising days, writing is about communicating, not blindly following grammar rules.

And that lesson has served me well as a professional writer.

And by the way, the only people who have ever criticized me for doing it were non-writers.

@Jeruba: I’m happy it was a funny fragment.

I tend to avoid it in formal writing, but in casual usage there’s nothing wrong with it.

Language is a malleable swamp made of exceptions and special cases.
Everything is up to the writer, and what he wants to achieve.
“To go boldly” just does not have the same impact as “To boldly go”.

Right on, @ragingloli !! Write on.

@Jeruba surprised the hell out of me here!
And I’m shocked by @SecondHandStoke,‘s inside the box answer.
But the rest of you’s all are right in character.

Wrong, @SecondHandStoke, only if you believe long-ago concoctedc grammar rules always have to be right.

@ibstubro, what, you think I’m a purist? I might have been when I began my editing career, but after fifteen or so years I had gained the confidence of my own authority and understood something about the rules and what it means to break them. My readings in linguistics and other subjects helped too.

I came along too late to be formally exposed to the “new” grammar, but I can see plainly that some rules are inherent in the forms and structures and sense of the language and some are arbitrarily imposed; for instance, those that are modeled on the rules of Latin grammar where there is no direct English counterpart. For the next fifteen years (and beyond), I allowed split infinitives where those were the best constructions, rather than forcing convoluted workarounds that impaired the author’s voice.

What’s with tthe apostrophe in “yous”?

I’m surprised, @Jeruba, because I learned editing in HS in the late 70’s and to this day I’d have to squelch my urge to red pencil this question if I was a moderator. I’ve not had your hands-on volumic ($10 word when 50¢ would do?) experience editing to break me of bad habits.
Hats off!

Yous looked too much like a typo, so I changed it to you’s to delineate demonstrate show my intent to take liberty with the language?