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Because PaymentX stores the user's credit card details for you and sends your server a token to charge the card, if you use our SDK, your PCI compliance scope is greatly reduced compared to the case when your servers were handling the card details directly.

What's the best way to phrase the sentence above? I know an english rule is to never start a sentence with Because.

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    There is no rule against beginning a sentence with a preposition. Don't sweat it. – JSBձոգչ Nov 22 '13 at 21:41
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    It's fine as is, but if you worry about silly nitpickers, you can change "Because" to "Since" or "As". (They're both worse, but you avoid the nitpickers.) – David Schwartz Nov 23 '13 at 04:03
  • The usual practice is to use As, not Because. See usage examples in technical writing. – Kris Nov 23 '13 at 12:31
  • @DavidSchwartz Why would since and as be worse? – Kris Nov 23 '13 at 12:32
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    @Kris It's just a subjective style judgment on my part. – David Schwartz Nov 23 '13 at 17:28
  • @Kris Because has a specific meaning which indicates cause and effect. Since and as do not carry this same meaning, so when we use one of them instead, we lose this intended meaning. If we can assume that this meaning is intentional and correct, then certainly losing it is worse. – Mark Bailey Nov 25 '13 at 16:34
  • @MarkBailey: Not true, both words can be used as synonyms of "because" - since (def 2), as (def 5). The problem is that they both have tonnes of other meanings, and that can make them less clear. But it's usually fairly obvious from the context. – naught101 Oct 08 '14 at 02:42

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This use of because at the beginning of the sentence is actually not against the rule. The sentence is just fine grammatically. The case when it would be wrong would be something like this "Why do I love chocolate? Because it's totally delicious." This sentence is wrong because putting that word at the beginning changes it from a sentence to a phrase. Because it is punctuated as a sentence (beginning with a capital letter and ending with a period), it is a sentence fragment, and thus bad grammar. <-- Yes, this last sentence is also good grammar.

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