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Jan. 1, 2007
Legal Ease
Some thoughts on those prohibitions we remember so fondly: starting a sentence with a conjunction, splitting infinitives, and ending a sentence with a preposition. By Howard Posner
By Howard Posner
Teach Your Children Well
I was reading to my six-year-old, or perhaps he was reading to me?he takes over the bedtime reading when he wants it done right?and he pointed to a sentence that began with And. "What's wrong with this sentence?" he demanded, sounding like a particularly imperious law professor. But unlike a law profess...
Teach Your Children Well
I was reading to my six-year-old, or perhaps he was reading to me?he takes over the bedtime reading when he wants it done right?and he pointed to a sentence that began with And. "What's wrong with this sentence?" he demanded, sounding like a particularly imperious law professor. But unlike a law profess...
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