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Was it only me that was told in school to avoid using the word "But" at the start of a sentence? I break that rule quite often, but this BBC article starts many paragraphs with that.
To address the article itself: Payday loans are awful and lead to ruin. If you're at the point where they're your only option, you're already screwed.
If someone thinks that Trump as President is going to make things better, that is very much delusional thinking. No matter that you lose your rights, your immigrant friend or family members getting kicked out for no reason, and your country sold to Republican connected contractors! At least you get sent a $1000 cheque from the US treasury as a special bri-, I mean 'gratuity'.
A lot of "rules" taught in high school writing classes are more stylistic choices. They're not necessarily wrong. Some of them might help to improve clarity, or a rule might help encourage new word choices so writing doesn't sound so repetitive. Lots of reasons. But many are more for style. Hey I did it! I even made a sentence with only an implied subject and verb, naughty.
I would also argue that sometimes a period followed by a conjunction can be the best stylistic choice. Maybe the sentence was already getting too long and a break was needed, but you still wanted to draw contrast. Maybe you could have put a comma but wanted an increased emphasis on what comes after but. A lot of these things are just preference or style though. Like "never ending a sentence with a preposition." Of course you can end a sentence with a preposition, but you might want to make sure what the preposition is referring to is clear to the reader too.
Very insightful, thank you. You can tell I didn't become a linguist.