This bright, appealing PDF grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using fronted adverbials in Year 4.
This primary resource is divided into five sections:
- Understand
Complete the example sentences which begin with fronted adverbials.
- Challenge
Use the image provided and write three sentences about it which begin with fronted adverbials.
- Test
Tick each of the example sentences which contain fronted adverbials, then match a list of fronted adverbials to the example sentence end that best completes it.
- Explain
Using your own words, explain what a fronted adverbial is.
- Apply
Use the image provided to write a passage about the boy’s journey to school, making sure at least three of your sentences start with fronted adverbials.
Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
What is a fronted adverbial?
Adverbials are used like adverbs. They are words or phrases that add more information to a verb, and explain how, when or where something happened.
Fronted adverbials are therefore are adverbials that have been moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. They describe the rest of the sentence to come.
Fronted adverbial examples
- Meanwhile, we did some drawing.
- Somewhere around here, Jamie left her pencil case.
- Just then, we heard a noise.
- Somewhat understandably, the teacher was furious.
- In September, it’ll be my birthday.
- Occasionally, I like to walk through the forest.
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to:
- develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using fronted adverbials
- indicate grammatical and other features by using commas after fronted adverbials