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Top WritingTips

  • Start with a past participle (ed)

                   Worried, the girl switched on the lights.
  • Start with the present participle (ing)

                   Hurrying, she made her way out of the room.
  • Start with a connective

                   Although she was nervous, she headed upstairs.
  • Put the subject half way through a sentence instead of at the start:

                   At the top of the stairs the creature waited.
  • Vary the kinds of sentences used

 
 

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