The standard of English in Singapore - What do you think?

[Windsor]

This not a matter of personal acceptance. One can write stories, anecdotes or personal letters and use "And" and conjunctions to begin a sentence. This is an official letter and therefore using conjunctions to begin a sentence is not acceptable. Furthermore, another person commented, citing the Bible as a reason why "And" being used to begin a sentence is correct has got it all wrong. The Bible is not a good first aid to English and Grammer. One can also cite words and phrases in the Bible like "Thee" and "Thou" or "Shouldst thou" are also correct.

I find it perfectly alright to begin a sentence with a conjunction. But the pretext and context should be there. In grammatically rigid sentence structuring, the use of conjunction and punctuation can make a formal sentence run as long as a paragraph before it finally ends with a period. It's not reader friendly and better off to be broken up into a few shorter sentences.

 

[scroobal]

Well said. In literature and when crafting novels, such mechanics are perfectly appropriate to provide or invoke a feeling of abruptness, suspense and break in tension etc. But in official notes of this nature, it is not appropriate.

This not a matter of personal acceptance. One can write stories, anecdotes or personal letters and use "And" and conjunctions to begin a sentence. This is an official letter and therefore using conjunctions to begin a sentence is not acceptable. Furthermore, another person commented, citing the Bible as a reason why "And" being used to begin a sentence is correct has got it all wrong. The Bible is not a good first aid to English and Grammer. One can also cite words and phrases in the Bible like "Thee" and "Thou" or "Shouldst thou" are also correct.

 

[Forvendet]

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Agree to the difference between storywriting and official documents.

And forumming is in another class.

 

[wahlaneh]

wahlaneh...
we are Singaporeans not British English or Americans so is ok to speak n write Singlish mah.
buay song complain lor.

 

[po2wq]

Agree to the difference between storywriting and official documents.

And forumming is in another class.

forumming in a rundown alfresco kopitiam ... anyhow hantum oso can oredi ... :o

 

[drifter]

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[marcelos46]

Frankly Scroobal, it is very obvious you can't write English yourself. Your grammar is horrible. I am very sure you don't speak English as your home language.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

This not a matter of personal acceptance. One can write stories, anecdotes or personal letters and use "And" and conjunctions to begin a sentence. This is an official letter and therefore using conjunctions to begin a sentence is not acceptable. Furthermore, another person commented, citing the Bible as a reason why "And" being used to begin a sentence is correct has got it all wrong. The Bible is not a good first aid to English and Grammer. One can also cite words and phrases in the Bible like "Thee" and "Thou" or "Shouldst thou" are also correct.

OMG which fucktard actually used the bible as an authoritative guide in english sentence structure. That's like using a dictionary to validate oneself in theological matters.