Object

• point: Which brings us back to our starting point: how to deal with the media boycott of these issues.

• salary: Initial starting salary is circa £ 14K plus a car!

Converse of object

• mark: The parade marked the start of three days of music across the county.

• herald: January heralded the start of the exam season and currently students are hard at work.

Preposition: at

• beginning: Let's just start at the beginning, with an early public call for the closing of a powerful mosque.

• pm: The meeting starts at 8 pm and will discuss what Fairtrade is and how organizations and the town can attain Fairtrade status.

• noon: DAN is planning a Freedom March starting at 12 noon from the Monument in Newcastle on Saturday 27th May.

Adjective modifier

• slow: As the race settled, Nigel Webb got up to third after a slow start, and John Chisholm held on to fourth.

• shaky: I do not think that is true, but we cannot deny that we are off to a shaky start.

Modifies a noun

• date: The usual start date is October of each year.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: The season started off slowly with five draws out of their first seven League games.

Used with why or when

• when: He would fuss and stop and start when feeding.

Infinitive complement

• appear: In addition to the resident breeding birds during late summer wildfowl and waders start to appear.

• feel: As soon as I started to feel good about myself again, I began to eat more healthily and I got stronger.

Present participle complement

• think: Chris asked members to start thinking about the Club's development plan which will be a working document for the Committee to continue.

• talk: Gordon Brown started talking tough this week about standing up to the unions over pensions.

• write: In September 2003 we started writing a bid to Youth Music for a further year of funding.

Preposition: in

• earnest: Once the new school is up and running, his Grand Prix training will start in earnest.

Preposition: of

• season: Accrington Stanley Match Preview Fri 04 Aug The start of a new season.

Preposition: from

• scratch: Consequently, after one of these options is taken, all spells must start from scratch.