Fronted adverbials: single words, phrases and clauses

English

In this unit, pupils build and apply to sentence contexts their understanding of determiners and a variety of fronted adverbials. 

In 'Review of determiners, prepositions and froted adverbials', pupils stretched their understanding of noun, adjective, verb and adverbs word classes to incorporate understanding of determiners and fronted adverbials. In this unit, pupils will build and apply to sentence contexts their understanding of determiners and a variety of fronted adverbials.  

Key grammar terminology, including determiners and fronted adverbials 

What punctuation always follows a fronted adverbial? 

Which of the following can be a fronted adverbial? 

Match the type of fronted adverbial to the example.

After the match is over, we can celebrate. 

Match the type of fronted adverbial to the sentence that uses it. 

tells us when the action after the comma happened

tells us how the action after the comma happened

tells us where the action after the comma happened

Match the type of fronted adverbial to its meaning. 

After we had stopped shaking, we entered the cave.

Which of these sentences begins with a fronted adverbial phrase of manner? 

Tick the words that are types of determiner. 

Match the type of determiner to the sentence that uses it. 

Which type of determiner is used in this sentence? 'We had plenty of time to get there.' 

a group of words with no verb (a bright fire)

a group of words with a verb (a bright fire blazed)

Match the word to its meaning and the example. 

Which part of this sentence makes complete sense on its own? 'Just then, the bear roared.'

This lesson will soon be taken down.

Fronted adverbials: single words, phrases and clauses

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