How often do you start your sentences with the word 'she'? She did this. She did that. She did this other thing. Bland, repetitive sentence style will kill your chances of producing a piece of writing that will get sold. Here are ten different ways to write the same sentence.
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Start with the subject. This is the most common method and is overused.
- She (or Kate) stepped carefully through the train cars searching for her private compartment.
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Start with a propositional phrase (About, above, across, after... etc.)
- From the moment she boarded the train, Kate had a hard time finding her private compartment
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Start with an adjective or adjective phrase.
- Dim hallways made it difficult for Kate to find her private train compartment.
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Start with an adverb or adverbial phrase.
- Stepping carefully through the dim hallways of the moving train, Kate could not find her private compartment.
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Start with a gerund. Gerunds are the -ing form of the verb and are used as if they were nouns.
- Finding her private train compartment seemed to be out of the question for Kate.
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