Key learning points

1. Subject-specific, factual vocabulary, including numeral facts, is used in a non-chronological report.
2. Fronted adverbials of cause are used at the start of a sentence that gives an effect to the cause in the previous one.
3. Sentences can start with a range of fronted adverbials like formal and viewpoint fronted adverbials.
4. Non-chronological reports are non-fiction texts that inform the reader about a specific subject.

Keywords

• Non-chronological report - a non-fiction text that informs about a subject or event and that is written out of time order

• Language - a way of communicating using words for expressing ideas, thoughts and information

• Fronted adverbial - a sentence starter followed by a comma

Common misconception