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Sentence Openers My... The... I... If... Next... Then... When... Openers are words used to begin a sentence My... The... I... If... Next... Then... When... After... We... They... It... So... Firstly... Secondly... Once... On... During... Soon... Despite... Meanwhile... However... Before... Although... I discovered... Eventually Regardless of... Fortunately... Unfortunately... Afterwards... The last time... Even though... Having decided... I felt as... Don’t forget to use a capital letter at the start of your sentence