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Should we use a comma after “But” at the beginning of a sentence?

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    • Dates
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ When There’s a Day in the Date
    • Expanded Insight: This Should Help You Memorize the Pattern
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ To Separate a Month or Season from the Year
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Terminology
    • 2. Definition
    • 3. Usage
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      • Brief outline of all commas
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      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
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    • Sums
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With sums of more than one number class
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ With remainders or numerical identifiers
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identification
    • 2. Usage
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
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      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Attribution Tags
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With quotation attribution tags
    • ✓ With source attribution tags
    • ✓ With psychological attribution tags
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ With tags that follow quoted question or exclamation marks
    • ✗ With conjuncted attributions or running quotations
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identify terms
    • 2. Identify usage
    • Expanded Insight: How to maintain a sentence’s emphasis with attribution tags
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
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      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Interjections
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With mild interjections
    • ✓ With verbal pauses
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Definition
    • 2. Identify Usage
    • 3. Compose Usage
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
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      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Linking Adverbs
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With linking adverbs
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ After a coordinating conjunction that starts a sentence
    • Expanded Insight: Linking adverb or coordinating conjunction—what’s the difference?
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identify terms
    • 2. Identify usage
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
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      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Nonrestrictives
    • Expanded Insight: What’s the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive information?
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With Professional name suffixes and nonrestrictive titles
    • ✓ With nested location names
    • ✓ With nonrestrictive appositives
    • ✓ With nonrestrictive dependent clauses
    • ✓ With descriptive reiterations
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ With personal name suffixes or restrictive titles
    • ✗ With restrictive appositives
    • ✗ With restrictive dependent clauses
    • Expanded Insight: That or which?
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Definition
    • 2. Terminology
    • 3. Identification
    • 4. Usage with proper name appositives
    • 5. Usage with appositives in sentences
    • 6. Usage with nonrestrictive dependent clauses
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
      • Extended outline of all commas
      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Peripheral Remarks
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With short parenthetical comments
    • ✓ With rhetorical or leading question tags
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identify the usage
    • 2. Compose the usage
    • 3. Identify the usage
    • Expanded Insight: How to keep the real subject of a sentence in focus with the appendage comma
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
      • Extended outline of all commas
      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Vocatives
    • Expanded Insight: Vocawhat?
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ In sentences
    • ✓ In Salutations
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ With verbal subjects or objects
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Definitions
    • 2. Identification
    • 3. Usage with salutations
    • 4. Compose the usage
    • 5. Identify in paragraphs
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
      • Extended outline of all commas
      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Coordinate Elements
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With coordinate words and phrases
    • Expanded Insight: Do you know how to identify coordinate modifiers?
    • ✓ With independent clauses connected by a conjunction
    • Expanded Insight: Joining independent clauses without the structure comma
    • ✓ With elements in a series
    • Expanded Insight: Is the final comma in a series necessary?
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ With coordinate words or phrases connected by a conjunction
    • ✗ To connect independent clauses without a conjunction
    • ✗ With a series connected by conjunctions
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identify terms
    • 2. Identify usage with compound words
    • 3. Identify multiple uses
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
      • Extended outline of all commas
      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
      • Back
    • Extended Outline
    • I. NUMBERS
    • Dates
    • Sums
    • II. APPENDAGES
    • Vocatives
    • Interjections
    • Peripheral Remarks
    • Linking Adverbs
    • Attribution Tags
    • Nonrestrictives
    • III. STRUCTURES
    • Coordinate Elements
    • Introductory Subordinate Elements
    • Ambiguous Elements
    • Antithetical Elements
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
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    • Brief Outline
    • I. NUMBER COMMA
    • II. APPENDAGE COMMA
    • III. STRUCTURE COMMA
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      • Extended outline of all commas
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    • Introductory Subordinate Elements
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With introductory dependent clauses and phrases
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identify usage
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
      • Extended outline of all commas
      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Ambiguous Elements
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With detached modifiers
    • Expanded Insight: Be sure to know the difference between a detached modifier and a misplaced modifier
    • ✓ With uncomon elliptical constructions
    • ✓ With reduplicated words
    • ✓ With potentially misleading sentences
    • DON’T USE IT:
    • ✗ With common elliptical constructions
    • ✗ With a reduplicated “that”
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identify usage
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
      • Extended outline of all commas
      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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    • Antithetical Elements
    • USE THE COMMA:
    • ✓ With contrasting phrases and clauses
    • ✓ With in-sentence revisions
    • KNOWLEDGE CHECK:
    • 1. Identify Usage
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      • OUTLINES
      • Brief outline of all commas
      • Extended outline of all commas
      • I. NUMBERS
      • Dates
      • Sums
      • II. APPENDAGES
      • Vocatives
      • Interjections
      • Peripheral Remarks
      • Linking Adverbs
      • Attribution Tags
      • Nonrestrictives
      • III. STRUCTURES
      • Coordinate Elements
      • Introductory Subordinate Elements
      • Ambiguous Elements
      • Antithetical Elements
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