Sentence Openers for Essays and Fiction
Hi, I'm Mary Duffy, Co-author of How to Improve Writing With Sentence Openers. Thank you for visiting. This book will be an eye opener for you!
Download Sentence Openers and you'll see that this e-book is no 2 or 3 page report, but a solid 72-page book which will change not only the quality of your writing, but also the quality of your professional life.
Put into action our techniques and you won't go gack to your old habits of writing sentences --subject, verb, object-- that bores readers to tears.
No more S-V-O. No More S-V-O.
If you are in the habit of writing sentences that begin with articles, nouns, or pronouns, then your prose will sound like:
John hit the ball. Danny the catcher caught the ball. The crowd roared. Then we evened the score. The game was disappointing and boring. We went home.
How boring!
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Very little! You will find the same old tools:
Old grammar books, exhausted writing guides, unimaginative workshops paperbacks, and faded style books that offer the same rehashed examples.
Now, let me tell you what you'll find in our e-book:
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An introduction that explains how you are judged by your writing.
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How verbal sentence openers make your prose athletic.
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How to use subordinating conjunctions as sentence openers.
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Using similes to startle your reader.
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Directing traffic with prepositional phrases.
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Powerful openers with Absolute phrases.
With copious writing examples --lots of examples of fine writing-- culled from master writers, our How to Improve Writing With Sentence Openers will show you the basic steps for you to crank out appealing, smart, and intense sentence openers that hook!
Plato, Maureen Dowd, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan and other essayists, novelists, columnists, short-story writers, journalists, philosophers, and critics know how fine writing begins: Nail the opener! The rest follows.
Writing sentences that are powerful will open many doors for you when you write memos, email, letters, college papers, essays, and fiction. Learn the writing techniques for sentence openers and sentence beginnings that will make your writing not only effective, but also elegant--writing that stands out!
Elevate your writing skills and dazzle friends, colleagues, readers, agents, and editors with our awesome sentence openers. Here is one example of how master writer Vladimir Nabokov opens a sentence with an infinitive:
Grammar and syntax textbooks will NOT show you how to begin your sentences. Forget about old grammar lessons:
Grammar lessons.
Exercises on writing topic sentences.
Chapter-end drills.
Diagramming sentences.
Memorizing rules (as in The Elements of Style).
How to Improve Writing With Sentence Openers is a practical e-book filled with many pages of sound practical tips, aid, help, lessons, and advice to write potent sentence beginnings. How will you learn? By seeing the patterns, by valuing the writing of master writers, and by making their legacy your possession.
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Let's Look at a few examples --cited in our eBook How to Improve Writing with Sentence Openers-- of how master writers use prepositional phrases to open their sentences:
After dinner, when we were sitting by the fire, and I was meditating an escape to Peggotty without having the hardihood to slip away … a coach drove up to the garden-gate, and he went out to receive his visitor (Dickens, Copperfield 47).
During the late summer of 1714 all England awaited the coming of King George I. On September 18 he landed at Greenwich (Churchill 95).
During the dull day, in the course of which he was entertained by his elderly hosts and by the more important of the visitors … (Tolstoy, War and Peace 369). (In the above example Tolstoy embellishes the use of his prepositional phrase with alliteration).
To the young lady, this separation was the poignant climax of all her sufferings. Through the carport, I could see a patchy apron of grass, a crescent of yard (Grafton, ‘A’ is for Alibi 170).
With any other jury it must have made the impression that he hoped to make. It may even have made its impression put on these poor, pusillanimous sheep (Sabatini 29).
This one-syllable—‘With’—preposition is a humble preposition, yet it plays an important role in the English language. Notice how
Charlotte Bronte uses it in her novel Villete:
With her father she really was still a child, or child-like, affectionate, merry, and playful. With me she was serious, and as womanly as thought and feeling could make her. With Mrs. Bretton she was docile and reliant, but not exapansive. With Graham she was shy, at present very shy; at moments she tried to be cold; on occasion she endeavoured to shun him (317).
As we have seen, the choice of sentence openers keeps the reader interested, breaking up the monotony of the S-V-O pattern. By mixing and commingling the sentence openers we have discussed, your prose will become athletic, exciting, breathless—never boring.
‘Nominative Absolutes’ may also be used as sentence openers! Absolutes, then, become unsurpassed tools to spice up and revive sentences that otherwise might lay dead on arrival.
Take the following plain sentence:
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Louise rushed to the bathroom where she scrubbed her hands throughly. |
And compare it to the same sentence, but preceded by a ‘nominative absolute’ as opener:
Hands trembling, Louise rushed to the bathroom where she scrubbed her hands thoroughly.
Here’s another example:
Eyes narrowed, fists clenched, lips trembling, he waited in the dark.
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