EnglishYear 4Grammar & Punctuation

Use fronted adverbials

Use fronted adverbials followed by a comma (Later that day, I heard the bad news. Beyond the dark forest, he found a clearing.)

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    A fronted adverbial tells us WHEN, WHERE or HOW something happens, and it goes right at the START of a sentence.

  2. 2

    Where does a fronted adverbial sit in a sentence?

  3. 3

    Look at these sentences. The fronted adverbial is in bold:

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    Let's add a fronted adverbial to this sentence: 'The dog barked.'

  5. 5

    Build a sentence with a fronted adverbial by dragging the words into the right order.

  6. 6

    Which of these has a fronted adverbial?

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    What punctuation always comes after a fronted adverbial?

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