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Sentence Openers
English language sentence opener

What is an English language sentence opener?
An English language sentence opener is the first word or first few words of an English language sentence.

As you practice, you will be able to differentiate between a sentence opener and the other parts of a sentence.

A sentence opener is always at the beginning of the sentences.
Not all subjects of a sentence are at the beginning of the sentence.
Learning sentence openers and their combinations with verbs and complements will enhance your English language skills and knowledge.

How are sentence openers different than the subject of a sentence?
Sentence openers are always at the beginning of the sentence.
If a subject is at the beginning of a sentence, it is a sentence opener.
Not all sentences have a subject at the beginning of the sentence.
There are sentences with verbs as sentence openers.

How does learning about English language sentence openers help in the real world?
You will be able to write, speak, and understand questions as well as declarative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.

What are different types of sentence openers?
Sentence openers for questions.
Sentence openers for declarative sentences.
Sentence openers for imperative sentences.
Sentence openers for exclamatory sentences.

What are the different sentence openers as per the classes of words or parts of speech?
Noun openers
Pronoun openers
    Personal pronoun openers
    Interrogative pronoun openers
    Demonstrative pronoun openers
    Indefinite pronoun openers
Gerund or gerund phrase openers
to infinitive or infinitive phrase Openers
Clause openers
Prepositional openers
"ing" Openers
"ly" Opener (adverb openers)
"-ed phrase openers (past participle phrase)
Adjective openers
Verb openers

Why is it essential to mention noun openers, pronoun openers, verb openers, and similar openers instead of noun, pronoun, verb, and similar classes of words and their derivatives?
Noun, pronoun, verb, and similar classes of words and their derivatives can be located anywhere in a sentence.

Noun openers, pronoun openers, verb openers, and similar openers are always located at the beginning of a sentence.

What is the difference between pattern of a sentence and tense of a sentence?
Pattern of a sentence involves a specific sentence opener with a specific sequence of words like subject or sentence opener, verb, complement. In various tenses, the verb takes a specific form, from present simple to future tense.

What are the most common sentence openers with specific sentence patterns?
The English language is vast academic discipline.
There are many sentence patterns.
You need to learn question by question.
Initially you should practice this combination.

Sentence opener + Verb + Complement.
This also is written as
Subject + Verb + Complement.

Subject + Verb + Complement or Sentence opener + Verb + Complement are the most common types of sentence patterns.

Sentence openers with verb to be, modal, other verb.
Auxiliary verb + subject + main verb

There are many types of sentence openers.
There are many types of sentence patterns.
An English language sentence opener with relevant thought and purpose of the sentence determines the pattern of the sentence.

If there is a known subject, verb, complement (Asif teaches English language) combination, why is there need for sentence openers?
Not all sentences begin with the subject as sentence openers.
Learning sentences openers is essential to understand, speak, and write the English language.

You may have been taught subject and predicate.
Not all sentences have subject as sentence opener.
All sentences have a sentence opener.

Do you teach students about English language sentence openers?

What are examples of declarative sentences with verb openers?
What are examples of questions with verb openers?
What are examples of exclamatory and imperative sentences with verb openers?

What are sentence openers?

Some examples of sentence openers include:
* Prepositional Opener
" "ing" Opener
" "ly" Opener (Adverb Openers)
" "-ed phrase opener (past participle phrase)
* to openers (infinitive phrase)
* Adjective Openers
* Etc

Prepositional Opener
In the magazine, one can find various ethnic and gender stereotypes.

On page four, the reader is insulted by the trite and shallow editorial.

Under the bridge, the troll waited for the English professor.

"ing" Opener

Composing a sentence which begins with the "ing" form of the verb is another good way to create variety.

"ly" Opener

Frequently authors begin a sentence with an adverb to add variety.

-ed phrase opener (past participle phrase)

Baffled by what had happened, Francis sat in silence with a dumb look on his face.

Bothered by the ants, Larry brought out the industrial can of RAID ant spray.

to openers (infinitive phrase)

To get to work on time, Jim sped down the highway at 80 miles per hour.

To experience nature, one should walk in the woods rather than read a book.

To visualize a concept or theory, a student may want to "map" ideas in his or her notebook.

Adjective Openers:

* Fast and dependable, the airplane is ready for any emergency.

* Serviced and checked, the airplane was ready to go.
Noun Openers
Verb Openers
Preposition Openers
Sentence Openers
Adverbial
Conjunctive phrase
Prepositional phrase
Verbal
Adjective phrase
Coordinating conjunction
Expletives
Absolute phrase
http://www.english4dummies.com/grammar/varietystructure.html