Maybe I Am Wrong

[Samuraisan]

But surely it is grammatically incorrect to answer " how iare you "
with "I am good " ?

[NoMercy]

Good job the OP started the sentence with "Maybe" then....

[gingejbee]

^^^or ask a question without a question mark?

[Samuraisan]

I was continuing my sentence.

[Jackdaw33]

You are right. Good should be replaced by well.

As to starting a sentence with But, perfectly acceptable depending on context.

[Samuraisan]

I am just being curious as that answer is used a lot nowadays and when I was young it never was.

[Samuraisan]

Thanks Jackdaw. It always sounds wrong to me.

[Old_Geezer]

I am good, as opposed to I am evil ?

Sounds like the question wasn't answered; must've been a politician.

The question was how ... ? Not what ... ?

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Is it ok to say "I is well good" then like what them rappers do?

[Hypognosis]

//As to starting a sentence with But, perfectly acceptable depending on context.//

Conjunctions are, by their very nature, meant to be joining two clauses together.

You'll notice that I avoid comma-and and comma-but because a conjunction serves as a comma.

[Patsy33]

We were always told by English teacher that you should never start a sentence with the word but.

[Jackdaw33]

It is done for effect. After a long narrative you can start a new paragraph with BUT, to repudiate what has gone before. If you are unhappy about this you can always replace it with HOWEVER.

[NoMercy]

Lower case letters are automatically replaced with capital letters in such circumstances, on this site.

A bit like autocorrect.

I hope you now feel enlightened :)

[Mamyalynne]

It's simply an Americanism that has crossed over and crept into to our casual conversation.

When passing the time of day, we don't always speak in purely grammatical terms, often we shorten a phrase though it still remains clear what we mean.

[ummmm]

Only in the title, NoM.

[Mamyalynne]

That's true , AB puts a capital in every word in the title, hence capital 'a' and 'w' in the 'am wrong'.

[NoMercy]

I'm pretty sure it has done it to me in the big white box, too.

[Jackdaw33]

The op's use of But instead of but in her post is wrong.

As to starting a sentence with 'but', imagine this:

"I nearly voted REMAIN yesterday"

"But you didn't though, did you?"