I Seen
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I hate that rule!
No shit. Well, it's no wonder i have a headache. With the amount of books i've read you'd think i would have picked up on that.
No shit. Well, it's no wonder i have a headache. With the amount of books i've read you'd think i would have picked up on that.
Or, I don't know, learned about it in school.
^That was a long time ago and i have the memory of a sieve, but thanks for reminding me of my age. 
I may have forgotten that the comma goes inside the quotations but at least i don't say i seen. Ha, so there.
Don't start sentences with And, But, or Because. Unless you want to.
Show me one writer who doesn't ignore grammar rules when it suits their purpose.
True. I start sentences with conjunctions all the time. I also end sentences with prepositions.
But the difference is that I know I'm doing it. I don't just assume it's okay.
Well there ya go. Maybe if we started correcting all the ignorant people of their grammatical errors they might take it as well as i have. I will start tomorrow.
What really is wrong with it, though? Such so called errors still produce perfectly understandable English sentences. There is lovely example I once read of how to grammatically end a sentence with five prepositions: Daddy brings a book upstairs to read for bedtime and the little boy says, "Daddy, what did you bring that book I don't want to be read to out of up for?"
The preposition/conjunction thing doesn't bother me at all. I use stuff like that all the time either for emphasis or simply because I think it sounds better. However, improper punctuation can change the entire meaning of a sentence, so those are the rules that I care about.
I gladly sacrifice all grammatical rules for the sake of "poetic flow"
From the way I speak, to the way I write.
From the way I speak, to the way I write.
And they're like "I seen this" and "I seen that"...I CAN'T GET BEHIND THAT!
In fact, if you Google search "starting a sentence with a conjunction" you'll find most of the top links concern academics and writers that agree with you. Most of us are not writing Latin prose, and it's really just a rule of thumb elementary school teachers threw at us because it's easy to remember and sometimes applicable, like the "i before e" thing.
There's no reason to refrain from ending a sentence with a preposition. That's what prepositions are for.
And I have no problem with starting a sentence with a conjunction, either.
Some grammar rules are just academic nonsense; like splitting an infinitive. English isn't Latin.
What bothers me are real mistakes that turn sentences into gibberish or contradictions, or are just cringe-worthy. Like "they're, there, their," or "loose and lose" or "chose and choose" and so on. "Wreck havoc" is still my major pet peeve.
And I have no problem with starting a sentence with a conjunction, either.
Some grammar rules are just academic nonsense; like splitting an infinitive. English isn't Latin.
What bothers me are real mistakes that turn sentences into gibberish or contradictions, or are just cringe-worthy. Like "they're, there, their," or "loose and lose" or "chose and choose" and so on. "Wreck havoc" is still my major pet peeve.
I don't agree with you on much, but I give
to this.There's a world of difference between bending the rules for effect, and being a lazy moron who just doesn't know any better.
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