Sentence Variations
(Laying the Foundation: A Resource and Planning Guide for Pre-AP* English Grade Nine, 2004, Advanced Placement Strategies, Inc., 4311 Oak Lawn Avenue, Suite 620, Dallas, Texas 75219, 222.apstrategies.com.
Begin a sentence with . . .
1. The subject.
"I came; I saw; I conquered."
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
2. An article and the subject.
(a, an, the, this, these, those, that, some)
A peanut sat on a railroad track.
3. An adjective and the subject.
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood."
4. An adverb before the subject.
5. A prepositional phrase used as an adverb.
6. A present participial phrase.
7. A past participial phrase.
8. An absolute phrase (or more than one).
9. An infinitive as the subject.
"To be, or not to be: that is the subject."
10. A gerund or gerund phrase as the subject.
11. An adverbial clause.
12. Postpone the subject.
13. A noun clause.
14. With a verb.
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead?"
15. With a conjunction.
16. With the object of the verb.
17. With an interjection.
18. With a tansitional word or phrase.
19. With a predicate adjective.
20. With a subordinate clause.
21. With two or more prepositional phrases.
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