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150 Story Starters: Creative Opening Lines ( Free Generator)

List of over 150 story starters to help start your stories, plus a generator. Use these sentences to start a story with ease and inspiration.
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· Jun 26, 2022
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20 (of 51) Story Starter Sentences

We’ve made it easy for you by putting together a long list of story starter sentences to give you the inspiration you need to start on your next creative writing project. https://www.journalbuddies.com/creative-writing-2/story-starter-sentences/
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· Nov 19, 2020
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50 Exciting Sentence Starters for Writing Stories - Twinkl

Whatever type of story you want to tell, you’ll find a great opening line in the list below! Simply choose one of these sentences to start a story and get writing.
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· Nov 7, 2020
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Learning From the Best: Writing an Effective Story Opening

Today we look at the opening of Ian McEwan's novel 'Enduring Love'. McEwan manages to introduce character and setting, whilst also compelling the reader to read on. Buy my revision guides in paperback on Amazon*: Mr Bruff’s Guide to GCSE English Language https://amzn.to/2GvPrTV Mr Bruff’s Guide to GCSE English Literature https://amzn.to ...
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· Nov 28, 2020
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How to write an engaging story opening - GCSE English Language

Learn how to write an engaging story opening with Miss Adams Teaches GCSE English Language. Perfect for any GCSE English Language specification or for budding writers, this video takes you through 5 techniques you can use to write an engaging story opening and hook your reader form the outset.
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· Oct 10, 2022
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How to engage the reader in a story opening for KS3 English students - BBC Bitesize

Your story's first lines should grab the reader's attention. Learn how to engage the reader in the opening paragraph with BBC Bitesize KS3 English.
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· Aug 3, 2019
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15 Powerful Speech Opening Lines (And How to Create Your Own)

Speech openings are meant to grip the audience's attention instantly. These 15 powerful openings will guide you to write your own speech introduction line.
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· Sep 2, 2019
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Introduction to Sentence Openers

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· Nov 2, 2014
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Begin to understand and use different sentence openers in your writing (ages 7 11)

Watch Alex as she explains how different sentence openers can add interesting 'extra' details to your writing. Tutoring Heroes provides families with confidence-building academic support for children aged 7-16. Give your child the boost they need to succeed, with personalised online tutoring. Why choose us? • Building your child’s ...
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· Sep 6, 2022
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Traditional Story Opener Sentence Flashcards

Whenever it comes to using Story Openers KS1 in your classroom , you’ll be able to inspire a range of different styles with these Traditional Story Opener Sentence Flashcards. You’ll also be able to download them from the shared Google Drive onto a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Our Story Openers KS1 resource is great for supporting EYFS ...
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· Jul 29, 2015
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Fantastic Sentence Openers for KS2

In this video, Twinkl Teacher James shares some fantastic sentence starters and openers that you can use in your next English lesson to improve your children's sentences. KS2 Sentence Starter Strips Pack: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1g9jpl ISPACED Sentence Openers PowerPoint: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/10pzct 0:00 Introduction 0:12 ISPACED ...
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· Sep 29, 2022
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Sentence Opener Examples Word Mat Pack

Word mats are often used as a supportive tool during independent writing activities. Place these mats where pupils can easily see them, whether that’s on their tables or as part of a working wall to help create varied fronted adverbials and subordinate clauses. Pupils may like to take a look at these word mats to remind them to use a range of ...
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· Sep 19, 2022
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Writing Strategies | 6 Ways to Start a Sentence | Sentence Structure | Learn to Write

Know what you want to write but aren't sure where to start? These sentence prompts will help. Remember these 6 openings and you can write anything you want! Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2b6maxS Visit our website: www.nessy.com 'Like' our Facebook page - http://facebook.com/Nessy.Learning Follow us on Twitter! - http://twitter.com/NessyLearning ...
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· Apr 20, 2017
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How to Write A Good First Line | 20+ Examples of Great Novel Openings

What makes a good first line? I'm sharing my thoughts/tips and a TON of examples, as well as going beyond the literal first line. In many cases, it's actually more a case of a great first couple of lines or first paragraph. 00:00 Introduction 01:19 First lines should be 04:54 Surprising, funny 1st line examples 07:40 Dialogue, sense of place ...
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· Oct 22, 2020
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KS2 Story Openers Word Mat

Wondering how you can get your KS2 learners into story writing? Then you’ll find the answer with our fantastic Story Openers Word Mat. This fantastic word mat style resource will provide your children with exciting prompts to help them get started with their own fiction writing.This word mat would be ideal for use during an English lesson or ...
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· Oct 13, 2020
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Good Story Openings: 8 Lessons from Famous First Lines - Now Novel | NowNovel

Good story openings make us curious, introduce novel themes, make bold statements and lure us in to read further using hooks. Learn more.
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· Dec 13, 2024
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How to plan your story - BBC Bitesize

Before you start writing, it's a good idea to plan your story. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.
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· Sep 3, 2018
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Non-Fiction Sentence Openers Word Mat

This great sentence openers word mat is a really useful visual aid to use in your literacy lessons. It gives children plenty of ideas about how to start their sentences when writing non-fiction KS2 texts. Want more great teaching resources? Create your own FREE Twinkl account today! Just getting started with a piece of short or extended writing ...
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· Apr 19, 2018
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Prepositional Phrase Sentence Openers

Introduce your key stage 2 pupils to prepositional openers with our fantastic prepositional phrase sentence opener mat. This colourful, eye-catching resource provides a fantastic way to show pupils how sentences can begin with prepositions such as ‘behind’, ‘below’ and ‘over’. Discover our What Is a Prepositional Phrase? Teaching ...
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· Sep 17, 2012
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How to write an adventure story - BBC Bitesize

An adventure story is often about something out of the ordinary and has a quest or mission. Find out more in this Bitesize KS2 English guide.
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· Aug 3, 2019
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Prepositional Phrase Sentence Openers

Introduce your key stage 2 pupils to prepositional openers with our fantastic prepositional phrase sentence opener mat. This colourful, eye-catching resource provides a fantastic way to show pupils how sentences can begin with prepositions such as ‘behind’, ‘below’ and ‘over’. Discover our What Is a Prepositional Phrase? Teaching ...
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· Sep 17, 2012
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KS2 Non-Chronological Report Sentence Openers Word Mat

To discover and use lots more exciting English resources, create your own Twinkl account here. A useful way to teach your children about non-chronological reports is to break it up into stages. Firstly, they can study examples of a variety of texts with you as a whole group, in small groups or individually. Reading through the examples, they ...
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· Dec 13, 2020
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How to write a sentence - BBC Bitesize

Sentences help keep our words neat and clear. Learn about the rules of writing sentences in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.
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· Oct 28, 2018
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How to build tension using sentences guide for KS3 English students - BBC Bitesize

Find out how to create tension in your writing with this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.
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· Dec 7, 2023
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ISPACED Sentence Openers PowerPoint

Use this PowerPoint to practise sentence openers. Write your own examples or type the examples that children think of on the slides. Great for boosting vocabulary! Use this PowerPoint to practise ISPACED sentence openers. Write your own examples or type the examples that children think of on the slides during class. It's a great way to boost ...
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· Jul 12, 2013
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Main Idea | Award Winning Main Idea and Supporting Details Teaching Video | What is Main Idea?

Main Idea | This video demonstrates finding the topic, main idea, and supporting details in paragraphs. Video imagery and voice-over combine to show students how good readers locate these essential components of basic comprehension. The video goes a step further in explaining and demonstrating the responsibility of the writer to support the ...
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· Nov 17, 2019
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How to Write a Story Opening | Creative Writing Tips

We hope these creative writing tips were helpful and gave you some good ideas on how to write a story opening. If you'd like to use the PowerPoint featured in this video it can be downloaded from the Twinkl website: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1311vt Writing the first line of a story can be intimidating sometimes, but hopefully, this creative ...
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· Sep 1, 2020
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SENTENCE STARTERS - 40 Super Useful Ways To Express Your Personal Point of View | English Phrases

English Sentence Starters - Here are 40 super useful ways to express your personal point of view. Expressing opinions in English. All English phrases spoken by teacher James. 😎 Learn 750 FLUENT English Words - https://youtu.be/RUXg3ot3NEA Learn 150 FLUENT English Phrases - https://youtu.be/7-V4mM60Zds
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· Dec 10, 2021
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Sizzling Starts: 6 Ways to Start your Story! | EasyTeaching

Learn 6 ways to write sizzling starts to your stories. A sizzling start is an opening to a story that captures the reader’s interest, and make them want to read on! Find more resources at https://easyteaching.net
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· Oct 22, 2020
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KS1 Star Openers Display Pack

In the English language sentence starters, also often known as sentence openers, can be used as hooks to keep readers keen and eager to continue reading. Support pupils to start including interesting sentence openers in their work by displaying these eye-catching starts in your classroom as part of a working wall for English. With twelve ...
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· Jan 6, 2021
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Narrative Writing Lesson Pack 4: Ways of Opening a Story

Once upon a time, in a world of cliché KS3 stories, Beyond created a dedicated lesson that tackles exciting and unique story openings... Let's be honest, creative writing is a tricky business and it can often go awry straight from the off, with dull or tired story openings at KS3 level. Use Beyond's Story Openings KS3 Lesson to expose your ...
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· Mar 7, 2016
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8 Tips for Starting Better Sentences (Writing Advice)

Tired of starting your sentences with the same word over and over? Today I've got 8 tips that can help your writing. Get Brandon's horror/thriller novel BAD PARTS: https://amzn.to/3esTFYC Follow Brandon McNulty: WEBSITE (Join my mailing list!) - https://brandonmcnulty.com/ TWITTER - https://twitter.com/McNultyFiction FACEBOOK - https://www ...
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· Mar 4, 2021
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KS2 Super Sentence Openers Teaching Pack

Use this Super Sentence Openers KS2 Teaching Pack to encourage your pupils to begin their sentences with super ISPACE openers. This resource includes a detailed PowerPoint, which explains all about adverbials and fronted adverbials and how they can enhance sentences. It also explains what the acronym ISPACE stands for, along with examples for ...
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· Jun 13, 2018
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CREATIVE WRITING LESSONS | Sentence Starters | Live Through Literacy

In this video, you will learn 7 creative ways to teach your students how to start their sentences. Students can use these scaffolded strategies to improve their sentence structure even if they do not know grammatical terms. Check out my online on-demand course for middle level educators, Examining Power and Perspective in the ELA Classroom ...
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· Jan 16, 2021
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Sentence openers and joining words - Spelling, punctuation and grammar: Video playlist - BBC Bitesize

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· Dec 4, 2024
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Crafting Compelling Sentences: 3 Exercises to Improve Your Writing

Get our _Scene Writing Checklist_ → https://storygrid.com/checklist?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Crafting+Compelling+Sentences+3+Exercises+to+Improve+Your+Writing Unlock the secrets to captivating storytelling with Tim Grahl of Story Grid. In this comprehensive masterclass, we delve into the art and science of crafting ...
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· Sep 8, 2023
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Sentence Game for Kids | Practice Writing Sentences in a fun way!

A fun sentence game for kids in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade to help them practice identifying complete sentences and incomplete sentences. CLICK https://bit.ly/3oVQ0sD for Sentence Activities. After you learn the parts of a sentence and how to write a complete sentence with our How to Write a Sentence ...
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· Dec 3, 2020
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100+ Great Examples of Sentence Starters to Improve Your Essay Writing in English

Sentences in essays tend to follow certain patterns. Specifically, students in the English-speaking world tend to begin sentences with one of a few dozen phrases. We learn these in school, and you'll see them repeated over and over again. The problem for people learning English is that you probably were never taught these, and you won't find ...
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· Dec 29, 2023
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Simple Sentences, Fragment Sentences, and Run-On Sentences

A quick grammar lesson identifying the main components of a simple (complete) sentence. Included are lessons on fragment and run-on sentences. There is also a review of how to fix the incorrect sentences to make them simple e or complete.
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· Sep 4, 2020
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12 Ways to Write Better Sentences for Creative Writers

12 Tips for Writing Better Sentences as a Creative Writer: 1. Avoid confusingly complex sentences 2. Set the Tone with word choices 3. Avoid passive voice 4. Remove Filtering 5. Set the pace with sentence length 6. Avoid body parts taking action 7. Reduce "was -ing" construction 8. Keep the wording natural 9. Cut unnecessary similes 10. Use ...
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· Dec 14, 2022
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How to start writing a story (7 story openings)

Starting to write the story that's been in your head is intimidating. I researched and found seven story opening types. In this video I list the seven types and give cautions for each type. Want to support what I do? Buy me a book. ~https://buymeacoffee.com/kammilutz Links from video ~Brandon Sanderson guest lecture https://youtu.be/blehVIDyuXk ...
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· Jun 19, 2021
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Sentence Starters for KS2

In this video, Twinkl's fantastic sentence starter resources are shown which are perfect to help children begin their sentences in interesting and engaging ways as well as take their writing to the next level using our KS2 Sentence Starter Strips Pack: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1jvxb9. These sentence starter strips are a wonderful way to help ...
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· Sep 13, 2022
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Story Starters for Narrative Writing/ 4 Engaging Story Starters for Narrative Writing

Story Starters for Narrative Writing/ 4 Engaging Story Starters for Narrative Writing/ This video is for you if you're a teacher, parent, or student who wants to learn new ideas to start stories or to hook your readers by writing strong story openers. Story openers are so very important in narratives because they help readers to understand the ...
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· Oct 12, 2023
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How to Start a Speech: The Best (and Worst) Speech Openers

Need ideas on how to start your upcoming speech? Public speaking is listed as Americans' number one fear, before death at number 5, and loneliness at number 7. So most of us are less afraid of dying alone than possibly embarrassing ourselves in front of others. The good news is, I've put together a few tricks to start your speech off right and ...
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· Jul 14, 2020
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Sentence Openers/ Sentence Starters/ Hook Sentences/ VCOP Creative Writing

Sentence Openers/ Sentence Starters/ Hook Sentences/ VCOP Creative Writing/ Sentence writing is an essential creative writing skill. Children who cannot make sentences cannot write paragraphs or stories. So, before teaching them to write short stories or essays, we must teach them how to write interesting sentences. In this video, you'll find ...
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· Oct 21, 2024
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The ly adverb opener - use ly adverbs to start your sentences and create powerful, vivid writing!

This is the first in a series of videos on Sentence Openers: probably THE most powerful tool you can use to create vivid and interesting writing. Added bonus - they are so much fun to use! Please like and subscribe so you don't miss a single hot tip!
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· Mar 8, 2020
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Sentence Pots

This is an activity which focuses on sentence building skills. In our example, we focused on using sentence openers and incorporating ambitious words but, as detailed, you can change the pots and the rules to suit your needs. Older pupils can just have more challenging vocabulary in their pots and more complex rules as required!
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· Mar 20, 2020
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How To: Writing Hooks or Attention-Getting Openings

How to write an introduction to your paper. Effective attention-getting openings can include intriguing questions, statistics, & more. Want more free instructional videos? Get a free trial: http://www.usatestprep.com/trial
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· Jun 7, 2016
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The Prepositional Phrase Opener - a powerful tool to create an image in your reader’s mind!

Some of the greatest authors in history have loved using the prepositional opener - Tolkien and Lewis included! Paint a strong picture in your reader's mind using this easy yet effective opener.
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· Mar 10, 2020
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The Sentences Type Song | MC Grammar 🎤 | Educational Rap Songs for Kids 🎵

Play this song and rap along to learn all about different types of sentences: an exclamatory sentence, a question, a statement and a command. Subscribe for NEW *MC Grammar* educational rap songs every week: https://www.youtube.com/c/MCGrammarTV?sub_confirmation=1 *Lyrics* 🎵 Chorus Hey, class! Let’s learn about the four sentences. Pay ...
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· Apr 15, 2020