The period will start in 15 minutes. vs I can barely remember the beginning of the period. Start has the sense of being a fixed point in time, while beginning could possibly refer to any time between the start and the halfway point.
0 To me, "In the beginning" indicates a single point in time, whereas "From the beginning" inticates something on-going. God's creation, therefore, may be viewed either way - a one-time event or an un-ending event. Do the words in Latin, Greek. Hebrew, (or an earlier language), indicate which phrase is the more intended?
For a while, using but to start a sentence was largely frowned upon. But, I think it is possible to use but at the beginning of a sentence, as long as it isn't overused. Am I right?
But to "start" marks the actual/exact time of launching an activity (to understand more clearly, consider these two examples: This is just the beginning [meaning, all the initial period] .
11 I think from the beginning puts a little more emphasis and focus on the significance of the beginning. If you were talking about a business, perhaps "he" was there in the planning process and integral to starting the business. Since the beginning places more emphasis on the intervening time period.
In the end, it was a good play. Yes, "At the beginning" can be used without "of". "At" is appropriate when there is a more specific reference point in time. "In" is less specific. Here is a biblical reference where the specific point in time is not relevant or known: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The beginning of the century is a period of time which is short compared to the century but rather long otherwise; Some people may use this phrase to mean the first decade or even longer. I might say "At the beginning of the 20th Century women generally couldn't vote but by the end of World War II many nations had granted them this right".
Of those 871 instances, 465 were at the beginning of a sentence; 51 immediately followed a semicolon; and 355 immediately followed a comma. Link to Full Tabulation (PDF) Although in my experience, So-comma was sometimes seen earlier than 2000 in under-edited business writing, it is mostly a child of the 2000s.
