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Direct subject: The committee approved the revised budget.
8 Sentence Opener Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
Before you copy
What to notice in the examples
Strong sentence openers vary naturally with meaning, orient the reader quickly, and avoid repetitive patterns such as beginning every sentence with the same subject or a vague transition that adds no logical connection.
- Identify the grammatical job sentence opener is doing in the sentence rather than judging it by appearance alone.
- Check the words immediately around the sentence opener for agreement, punctuation, attachment, or boundary clues that determine whether the construction is correct.
- Read the complete sentence for clarity and rhythm after editing the sentence opener, because a technically valid form can still be awkward or ambiguous.
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Time phrase: After three rounds of testing, the team released the update.
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Contrast transition: However, the second survey produced a different result.
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Conditional clause: If demand remains stable, production can increase gradually.
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Participial phrase: Comparing both drafts, Lena noticed a missing citation.
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Prepositional phrase: In the final section, the report explains the limitation.
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Question opener: What would change if the deadline moved by one week?
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Short emphasis: Most importantly, verify the source before publishing the claim.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.