grammaticality - Is it ok to start a sentence with “also”?

Is it ok to start a sentence with also?

Also, I had given him the file you sent me.

Answer

Certainly, it is correct to begin a sentence with also. All adverbs (also inclusive) can be used at the beginning of a sentence with the proper punctuation. For instance, the first sentence in this answer begins with an adverb. Other examples are:

• Furthermore, we have exhausted all the other options.


• Definitely, you can use my car.


• Surely, he could do better.


• Besides*, she had my number and could have called.

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^{*Note that Besides is used here as an adverb not a preposition.}