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Thesaurus entry: and
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conjunction
coffee and a scone
synonyms
: together with, along with, with, as well as, in addition to, also; besides, furthermore;
informal
plus.
USAGE NOTES
and
It is rank superstition that this coordinating conjunction cannot properly begin a sentence:
· “Another stumbling-block to a certain type of academic mind is the conjunction
and
. It is often laid down as a rigid rule that a sentence should never begin with
and
. This was a point on which my own schoolmaster was inflexible. And quite recently a training college student whom I asked to comment on a passage from Malory condemned him for using ‘the objectionable ...