Sentence Openers

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: Kindly and quickly, the student helped pick up the books.

• Verb + ing

• Compare 2 adjectives/adverbs

• Transition

• Prepositional phrase

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: Grinning from ear to ear, Holly opened her Christmas presents.

• Prepositional phrase

• Verb + ing followed by a prepositional phrase

• Compare 2 adjectives or adverbs

• Adverb/-ly word

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: To get home I had to take the bus.

• Adverbial clause/subordinate conjunction

• Verb + ing

• Infinitive

• Compare 2 adjectives or adverbs

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: During the break my family and I are going on vacation.

• Prepositional phrase

• Adverbial clause/subordinate conjunction

• Adverb/-ly word

• Transition word

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: Then, the dog began to chase the cat around the house.

• Prepositional phrase

• Infinitive

• Compare 2 adjectives/adverbs

• Transition word

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: Laughing, I answered my sister’s question.

• Infinitive

• Adverb/-ly word

• Verb + ing

• Prepositional phrase

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: After the play was over, the actors took a bow on stage.

• Transition

• subordinate/dependent clause/subordinating conjunction

• Prepositional phrase

• Infinitive

Choose the sentence starter/style builder: Quietly, the girl whispered to her friend.

• subordinating conjunction

• Adverb/-ly word

• Infinitive

• Prepositional phrase

after the game

• subordinate clause

• prepositional phrase

• infinitive phrase

before the afternoon hour

• infinitive phrase

• prepositional phrase

• subordinate clause