In grade school, many students are taught that it is
wrong to start a sentence with the word "because".
Why teachers perpetuate this "white lie" is because
young students often will write something like,
"today I went to the Park. Because it was sunny. I
had a swell time, "and believe that it is correct.
When students later go on to the middle or high
school, they will often stubbornly right person
properly begin a sentence with "because" and they
find it hard to accept the fact that they were
misinformed for so long.
This article shows you the steps to correctly start
a sentence with "because" and discusses the
linguistic why it may be correct to do so. You can
find
more discussions on
InternetDict.com.
1. Grammar, we have what are called independent
clauses and dependent clauses. An independent clause
in the simplest terms, is a group of words that form
a valid sentence on its own. An example would be, "Giada
threw mascarpone cheese in Rachael". The sentence
has a subject, a verb, and in this case, an object
as well.
2. A dependent clause is a group of words that do
not qualify even as a statement. This is often the
case when the term begins with a connection
(connection Word) as "because", or "If" or "when."
For example, the sentence, "Because I'm hungry" is
not a sentence on its own. It has a subject and
verb, which is all one sentence needs, but the fact
that it starts with a conjunction means that
something else, namely a self-contained provision
must follow.
3. As a second example, the sentence "Although it
was a good day" is a dependent clause and not a
sentence on its own, but it will be a phrase, when
combined with the independent clause ", the Park was
completely empty.". We combine the dependent and
independent clauses with a comma.
4. In order to address the topic of the article, the
following statement is fully valid: "Because it was
raining, I decided to take my umbrella." It follows
the rule explained above. It is completely wrong to
say that it is not a statement, just because it
starts with the word "because".
5. Students and of course business writers should
feel completely fit with this concept. Writing
becomes more interesting when we use a combination
of dependent and independent clauses in accordance
with the grammatical rules. Due to this fact, we
should try to do it! |
