But I failed my exam. There was a crowd of people at the party. And guess who was there? I lost my job last week, so I am really down. I could go to London. Or I could go to Madrid. However, a subordinating conjunction can come before the two clauses.
It generally uses a comma before the second clause, but not always. But because I missed the bus, I was late for work, and my boss was angry. And after I got back home, I could finally put my feet up. But before the captain could answer, a major appeared from behind the guns. And even Mary could assure her family that she had no disinclination for it.
Not that you can also use because as a subordinating conjunction. But other guides might have a different suggestion. For me, the word so is a conjunctive adverb like, therefore. So, I would use a comma in both instances.
So, I missed the pm train, and then pm, but finally made the pm train. Therefore, there I was, stood up and stranded for the second time. You would rarely create a sentence fragment when using a coordinating conjunction. If the first phrase is closed with full stops periods , and the second phrase is linked with a logical conjunction, you will never go wrong.
But I got a promotion. The remedy for all my financial woes. The problem is that the second clause has no verb, which is then a fragment. But by adding a verb, the two phrases are now logical and correct. It will be the remedy for all my financial woes.
If you are unsure about whether you have created a fragment, run your text through a reliable and accurate grammar checker. And, as a matter of fact, there is no reason at all not to use them.
Here are some knowledgeable quotes about starting sentences with conjunctions. They are almost always better than beginning with however or additionally. There is a persistent belief that it is improper to begin a sentence with and, but this prohibition has been cheerfully ignored by standard authors from Anglo-Saxon times onwards.
However, for formal business writing such as transactional letters, there is still a reluctance to use these words. Formal language register would use furthermore or moreover for and, however for but, and therefore for so.
These two groups of words clearly sound different in use, and naturally, change the formality of writing. Nowadays, you can use coordinating conjunctions in both formal and informal writing. For general modern writing such as fiction, articles, or blog posts, feel free to do as you please.
So, Wikipedia notes this dates back to the s. This usage has become noticeably more common in U. It is especially noticeable in a back-and-forth colloquy between, say, an NPR newsreader at station headquarters and the on-the-scene reporter: Newsreader: What can you tell us about X?
Reporter: So, blah blah blah. Newsreader: Does that represent a change from Y? Reporter: So, bib blib blib. Newsreader: What do you think the outcome of Z will be? Reporter: So, blub blub blub. It is almost a verbal tic for some reporters to preface every statement with "So. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Is it just a "pause" word… No, but, so, it can definitely function that way too, so, yeah. Improve this answer. Jon Purdy Jon Purdy Discourse marker, that's what I was looking for--thanks.
That said, it seems appropriate usage would be in replacement of "for example", not "because of that". Perhaps you could enlarge upon this and make it an answer of the quality ELU has grown to expect. Sentence-initial so may be semantically bleached, but may of course have the sentence-connector sense 'Bearing in mind what's just been said' etc. Add a comment. So, I find it annoying, too. I find it annoying, and I do it all the time.
I have to go through my own prose, removing it. All of xpda's examples are instances of the use of so as different kinds of discourse markers, not just the sentence-connector usage. Swan's classification of discourse markers was good, but Fraser's Pragmatic Markers isearch. Tim Lymington Tim Lymington So we couldn't go out for dinner. And it's helping us communicate better. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
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