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Effective paragraph beginnings. You need them to grab an otherwise-oh-so-bored audience. The best ones align with the theme of the essay and creates vivid imagery. Like the excited cabin of a rocket ship - where you can't sleep.


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Okay a city writing slippers Nine of eleven here right

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Private You don't think i'm not as plans even if

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it's to be smooth but didn't like smooth Easily Finally

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after two and a half disease only time to go

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Which choice begins the paragraph most effectively Are you got

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a few choices here They were back in the eagle

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Well let's See what does that mean They're back in

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the eagle right there Last paragraph after kind of beefs

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dio and finally sleep Not only was the tiny cabin

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noisy with thompson bright with warning lines that couldn't be

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done but also was glowing with intense sunshine outside along

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they was done But the eagle was no more rest

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ful trying to our chris berman nfl voice there Well

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let's See they were back in the eagle What does

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that mean Is that gives us anything it's Kind of

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like dull Well the previous paragraph ends with the idea

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of sleep So a good opening sentence of this paragraph

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would be one that references sleep in a particular place

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namely the eagle got it So it see the eagle

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was not a sleepy place right That's the right answer

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There that's a way better control as is the paragraph

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opens with a fact that was already stated in the

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previous paragraph like notice how in all of these redundancy

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or repeating yourself are saying the same thing over and

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over and over and over again is really frowned upon

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so we're done in st not good not smooth We

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learned later in the paragraph that the eagle was distinctly

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uncomfortable so opening with a statement about its comfort is

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misleading because it ain't While the mission was indeed a

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success the paragraph is not about the success of the

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mission so an introductory sentence about a successful mission is

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a kind of off tone here a little bit out

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of step that's it the eeg ola was not a

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sleepy place It was just a spacey place you know 00:01:50.004 --> [endTime] like kevin

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