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Beginnings and Endings

Write one descriptive or explanatory paragraph (75-100 words) using one of the following sentences as opening sentences.

1. The most important things are the hardest things to say
2. People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up there as well!
3. A week from now, I shall be on holiday.
4. All this happened, more or less.
5. The book was thicke and black and covered with dust.
6. Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you.
7. Michael Moore's superb documentary tackles a meaty subject: gun control.
8. On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness (frugality) a second thought.
9. The message of this book could be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective.
10. Need a laptop computer?

Write one descriptive or explanatory paragraph (75-100 words) using one of the following sentences as the closing sentence in the paragraph. Be careful with tenses.

1. I left the place for good, relieved that everything was over.
2. And then love took them beyond stars.
3. He began to wish he had never come to the party.
4. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.
5. And she wrapped herself in Magda's shawl, which smelled of cinnamon toast and apples.
6. My son stands with his feet in the ocean.
7. Reservations essential.
8. As I turned around, I bumped into the old musician again.
9. And that is how we actually did it.
10. This essay has examined the principal causes and effects of the increase in fast-food consumption in the world.

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