An adverbial tells us how, when or where something happens. It can be one word (Quietly) or a phrase (After lunch, In the morning, Without a sound).
When you move an adverbial to the front of the sentence, it is called a fronted adverbial. Put a comma after it: “After lunch, we played football.” “Quietly, the fox crept past.”
Fronted adverbials help you vary how your sentences start, which makes your writing more interesting.
Worked example
Add a comma: “At the end of the day the children went home.”
- The fronted adverbial is “At the end of the day”.
- Put a comma after it.
Answer:At the end of the day, the children went home.
Key words
- adverbial
- a word or phrase saying how, when or where
- fronted
- moved to the front
- phrase
- a small group of words
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Common Core-referenced: L.3.2