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

Introductory phrases are similar to introductory clauses but are not complete clauses because they do not have both a verb and a subject. For example: Checking methodically, we never miss a mistake. To stay top of the class, you have to study hard every day.

Explanation:

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.