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Year 5 – Autumn Block 1 – Ready to Write – Fronted Adverbials
Notes and Guidance:
• Children should know that a main clause can be expanded by adding an adverbial phrase. They should
also know that the location of this adverbial phrase can be moved within the sentence.
• From Year 4, children may know that an adverb can give more detail about a verb, an adjective and even
other adverbs. They tell us how, when, why, where or how often.
• Children should know that all fronted adverbials must be followed by a comma even if it is only one word,
i.e. Yesterday, I went to the shops.
Focused Questions
• What is an adverbial phrase? What does it do within a sentence?
• Can an adverbial phrase move location within a sentence?
• Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence. What punctuation mark should be used after it?
• Change this sentence so that the adverbial phrase becomes a fronted adverbial. What have you had to
change or add?
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Year 5 – Autumn Block 1 – Ready to Write
Step 3: Fronted Adverbials
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Introduction
Identify the fronted adverbial in each of the sentences below.
A. Before long, the bus had arrived.
B. In the distance, a wolf howled at the moon.
C. Waking up, the lion cub opened its eyes and yawned.
D. Later that day, the police officers returned to the station.
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Introduction
Identify the fronted adverbial in each of the sentences below.
A. Before long, the bus had arrived.
B. In the distance, a wolf howled at the moon.
C. Waking up, the lion cub opened its eyes and yawned.
D. Later that day, the police officers returned to the station.
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Varied Fluency 1
Circle the sentence below which has a fronted adverbial.
A. My parents will be celebrating their twelfth wedding anniversary
with all of our family and friends tonight.
B. Later today, my parents will celebrate their twelfth wedding
anniversary in the place where they first met.
C. It is my parents’ twelfth wedding anniversary today so in our
house, it is a very special day.
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Varied Fluency 1
Circle the sentence below which has a fronted adverbial.
A. My parents will be celebrating their twelfth wedding anniversary
with all of our family and friends tonight.
B. Later today, my parents will celebrate their twelfth wedding
anniversary in the place where they first met.
C. It is my parents’ twelfth wedding anniversary today so in our
house, it is a very special day.
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Varied Fluency 2
Insert a comma after the fronted adverbial in the sentence below.
Before sunrise Zachary ate his cereal
whilst catching up on the previous
day’s cricket.
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Varied Fluency 2
Insert a comma after the fronted adverbial in the sentence below.
Before sunrise, Zachary ate his cereal
whilst catching up on the previous
day’s cricket.
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Varied Fluency 3
True or false? The adverbial used in the sentence below is an
adverbial of frequency and can be moved to the front of the
sentence.
According to my dentist, I should brush my
teeth twice daily if I want my teeth to be
healthy and strong.
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Varied Fluency 3
True or false? The adverbial used in the sentence below is an
adverbial of frequency and can be moved to the front of the
sentence.
According to my dentist, I should brush my
teeth twice daily if I want my teeth to be
healthy and strong.
True because the following sentence still makes sense. Daily,
according to the dentist, I should brush my teeth twice if I want my
teeth to be healthy and strong.
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Varied Fluency 4
Identify which adverbial in the sentence below can be moved to
the beginning of the sentence.
The young man stood and waited
patiently under the grandfather clock
whilst repeatedly checking the time.
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Varied Fluency 4
Identify which adverbial in the sentence below can be moved to
the beginning of the sentence.
The young man stood and waited
patiently under the grandfather clock
whilst repeatedly checking the time.
Under the grandfather clock, the young man stood and waited
patiently whilst repeatedly checking the time.
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Application 1
Rewrite the sentence below with one adverbial phrase at the
beginning of the sentence:
The Emperor and his wife strode
majestically around the inner palace
grounds before the sun rose.
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Application 1
Rewrite the sentence below with one adverbial phrase at the
beginning of the sentence:
The Emperor and his wife strode
majestically around the inner palace
grounds before the sun rose.
Before the sun rose, the Emperor and his wife strode majestically
around the inner palace grounds.
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Application 2
The children are discussing which adverbials are best to use in a
sentence.
Janet always parks the family car on the gravel
driveway before entering the house.
Whose adverbial would fit best?
Gilmour
Without thinking
Greedily
Ray
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Application 2
The children are discussing which adverbials are best to use in a
sentence.
Janet always parks the family car on the gravel
driveway before entering the house.
Whose adverbial would fit best?
Ray’s adverbial would fit best. Without thinking, Janet always parks
the family car on the gravel driveway before entering the house.
Gilmour
Without thinking
Greedily
Ray
Reasoning 1
Gareth thinks that the phrase ‘the scenic view’ can be moved to the
beginning of the sentence and used as a fronted adverbial.
Is he correct? Explain your answer.
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Sinead’s mum was leaning against the
window whilst she was admiring the
scenic view in her friend’s garden.
Reasoning 1
Gareth thinks that the phrase ‘the scenic view’ can be moved to the
beginning of the sentence and used as a fronted adverbial.
Is he correct? Explain your answer.
Gareth is incorrect because…
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Sinead’s mum was leaning against the
window whilst she was admiring the
scenic view in her friend’s garden.
Reasoning 1
Gareth thinks that the phrase ‘the scenic view’ can be moved to the
beginning of the sentence and used as a fronted adverbial.
Is he correct? Explain your answer.
Gareth is incorrect because ‘the scenic view’ is not a complete
fronted adverbial on its own.
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Sinead’s mum was leaning against the
window whilst she was admiring the
scenic view in her friend’s garden.