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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Quick-Bat-6128 on 2026-02-24 02:30:05+00:00.
I am a first year 8th grade English teacher. All year, I have been grading students essays and have been telling them, “you cannot begin a sentence with because”. I swear I have been told this for many years, to not start a sentence with because. However, recently I have started teaching sentence types. We get to complex sentences- and subordinating conjunctions show up. It turns out, it is perfectly acceptable to begin a sentence with “because”, as long as the dependent clause is followed by a comma and an independent clause. I taught this fine, and only one student called me out on my mistake. Oops! Us teachers mess up too!! Just thought this was kind of funny- I apologized for my mistake and made sure students learned how to use sentences beginning with “because”.
TL;DR: Because my mind was somehow warped many years ago, I incorrectly taught students the use of beginning a sentence with “because”.