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Danglers

A dangler (also known as a dangling modifier or dangling participle) is a sentence element—usually a participle or a phrase anchored by one—that doesn’t relate syntactically to the noun it’s intended to modify. In other words, when a modifier doesn’t appear where it’s logically supposed to be, it’s a dangler—for …

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Conjunctions to start sentences

There is no rule against it. It’s common, and has been for centuries, in all types of writing.