Beginnings

**BEGINNINGS FOR WRITING** **1)** //__**Statement**__// **Examples:**  ==**- I had a horrible dream last night that I will never forget.** ==

**- The best thing ever happened to me today and I've never been happier.**
**2)** //__**Question**__//  **Examples:**  ==**- Have you ever had a really bad dream?** == ==**- Did you ever have a day when everything went your way?** ==

**3)** //__**Quotation**__//

**Examples:**
==**- “Dreams are a window into your soul,” the fortuneteller whispered.** == ==**- The man looked right at me and said, “I think you are the winner.”** ==

**4)** <span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;"> //__**Onomatopoeia**__//

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**Examples:**
==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"> **- Pow! Bam! Kaboom! The deafening noise** ==

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**echoed in my mind as I slept.**
==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**- I felt my elbow smack the side of the full can of paint and then I watched as it landed on our new carpet, Splat!** ==

<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">**5)** <span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;">//__**I wonder . . .**__//

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**Examples:**
==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"> **- I wonder if dreams can ever become real.** == ==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**- Is this really happening to me I wondered.** ==

<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">**6)** <span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;">//__**Begin with the conclusion**__//

<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 42px;">**- I would never have believed dreams could become real until that horrible day last Thursday.**
==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**- I still couldn't believe they had picked me, but it was true.** ==

<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">**7)** <span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;">//__**Exclamation**__//

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;">**Examples:**
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;">**- Nightmares really do come true!** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;"> **- I woke up knowing this was the day we were really going** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 21pt;"> **to Disneyland!**