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Sep 2014
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435 GG We Might Could Harvest the Corn

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Yes, you can start a sentence with "because." Here's how to do it.
What are helping verbs (also called auxiliary verbs), and why do people in some regions say things such as "might could" and "might should"?
English writers didn't always use a dot over the letter "i." We'll talk about when and why they started. Visit the website: http://bit.ly/1phbhWH

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