Sanjay Saralaya writes: “Can one start a sentence with words and phrase such as ‘as’, ‘because’ and ‘due to’? Is it correct to sa. Here is a query from a reader.

“Good sentences don’t start with He/She/They.” That’s a lesson that, according to a Twitter post, a teacher recently passed on to a child.

They can go at the start, middle or end of a sentence. In the example below a subordinate clause has been used at the end of a sentence: The island was calm and peaceful until the clouds became ...

A far more powerful deterrent has been my fear that if I wrote about i.e. and e.g. I’d have to start a sentence with one of these terms. Ever seen either of these at the head of a sentence? I ...

When we write a sentence we always use a capital letter at the start and punctuation at the end (usually a full stop). For example: This is an example of how to use capital letters and full stops.

So, just as but can start a sentence as legitimately as however and "and" can start it as respectably as "as well," so can link the first and second parts of a thought even if the second thought ...

Thothathiri and her colleagues asked 4- and 5-year-olds who had not yet developed fluent reading skills to listen to a series of active and passively constructed sentences (“the boy kicked the ...