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🚀 Fronted Adverbials – Year 4
English · Year 4 (KS2) — spotting and using fronted adverbials of time, place and manner, with the comma in the right place
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What is a fronted adverbial?
A joining word that links two parts of a sentence
A word that names a person, place or thing
Words at the start of a sentence telling how, when or where
A describing word that comes before a noun
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Which sentence starts with a fronted adverbial?
We played football after lunch.
We played football and won.
The children played football.
After lunch, we played football.
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Where should the comma go in this sentence? Every morning I walk to school.
Every morning, I walk to school.
Every morning I, walk to school.
Every morning I walk, to school.
Every, morning I walk to school.
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Under the bridge, a troll was sleeping. What does the fronted adverbial tell us?
How often it happened
When it happened
How it happened
Where it happened
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Silently, the cat crept towards the bird. What type of fronted adverbial is 'Silently'?
Frequency
Place
Manner
Time
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Later that evening, the stars appeared over the hills. Which part is the fronted adverbial?
appeared
over the hills
the stars
Later that evening
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Which fronted adverbial tells us when something happened?
Beneath the old oak tree
Carefully and slowly
With a loud crash
As the sun set
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Which shows 'The fox hunted at midnight.' rewritten with a correctly punctuated fronted adverbial?
Hunted the fox, at midnight.
At midnight the fox, hunted.
At midnight, the fox hunted.
The fox, at midnight hunted.
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Which fronted adverbial is a single adverb, not an adverbial phrase?
Suddenly
Without warning
In a flash
All of a sudden
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Which sentence begins with a fronted adverbial of manner?
Before breakfast, Sam carried the eggs.
Sam carried the eggs with great care.
With great care, Sam carried the eggs.
In the kitchen, Sam carried the eggs.
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