Sentences may begin with a variety of phrase types. Using the following phrases as the beginning of your sentence, complete the thought. Remember to separate the introductory phrase from the remainder of the sentence with a comma.

For example:
Introductory phrase: While the clerk waited patiently

Completed sentence: While the clerk waited patiently, Sheila and Lynn carefully read the list of ingredients on the cereal package.

1. After fourteen rainy days

2. Dripping from head to toe

3. To annoy me

4. Sounding like a moose

5. In the middle of the garden

6. Hidden behind the curtain

7. To begin the lesson

8. To surprise everyone at the concert

9. Trained to retrieve anything

10. Beside the dying soldier

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet