Speech starters

“Let…” starters

“There is / there are” starters

Adverb starters

Agreement / disagreement starters

Attention grabbers

Clause starters

Conversation launchers

Coordinators / connectors

Discourse markers

Dummy subject starters

Emotional reaction starters

Formulaic spoken chunks

Hesitation starters

Narrative starters

Opinion starters

Prepositional phrase starters

Question-form starters

Single-word launchers

Topic-shift starters

V-ing starters