The topic at the Educational Conference was how to improve student writing. One teacher stated she taught all her students never to begin a sentence with the word because. She remembers her teacher saying it was wrong to do so, and that's what she tells her classes. I really wish sometimes that I had a class to teach, because I feel some responsibility to the English language. I long to straighten out her misunderstanding, but it's hard to do that outside a classroom. I would explain this way:
"Because you are ignorant of language usage" That's not a sentence.
"Because you are ignorant of language usage, you should not be teaching English." That's a perfectly good sentence.
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