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Avoid using plus in formal contexts to introduce an independent clause: He is the chair of the electrical engineering department, plus he has his own consulting firm. Use instead: As well as being the chair of the electrical engineering department, he has his own consulting firm.Plus which should not be used to introduce any sentence or clause. Avoid: She is the head coach of women's varsity soccer. Plus which, she is a physical education professor. Use instead: In addition to being the head coach of women's varsity soccer, she is a physical education professor. In formal writing avoid using plus in place of and as a conjunction joining two subjects in a sentence: Lack of practice and [not plus] a knee injury have caused her to drop out. This use of plus as a conjunction is also contested syntactically. Some writers regard it as a preposition, in which case the verb have caused in the last sentence would switch from plural to the singular has caused with the single subject being lack.
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