a punctuation mark used after any fronted adverbial

Fronted adverbials: single words and phrases

English

Determiners: articles and possessive pronouns

Prepositions

Fronted adverbials: phrases and clauses

Synonyms and antonyms

In this unit, pupils stretch their understanding of noun, adjective, verb and adverbs word classes to incorporate more advanced word classes. In 'Key grammar terminology', pupils will build and apply to sentence contexts their understanding of determiners and fronted adverbials.  

In 'Word class', pupils learnt to identify and use the four main word classes in English: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. In this unit, pupils will stretch their understanding of word class to incorporate more advanced word classes.

In this unit, pupils learn and review a number of grammatical terms: determiner, article, possessive pronoun, preposition, phrase, clause, fronted adverbial, clause, phrase, synonym, antonym, etymology and word family. Critically, they learn that any fronted adverbial is followed by a comma.

Review of determiners, prepositions and fronted adverbials

Tick the fronted adverbials which are phrases. 

What punctuation is missing from this sentence? Today I am going to walk to school. 

Match each type of fronted adverbial to its meaning. 

Match the type of fronted adverbial to the example. 

Which fronted adverbial of manner would work best here? __________, we clapped and cheered. 

It does not contain a comma after the fronted adverbial.

It does not contain a verb in the fronted adverbial phrase. 

It contains a verb in the fronted adverbial. 

How do we know this sentence does **not** contain a fronted adverbial phrase? As the sun set, I yawned sleepily.

What makes a clause different from a phrase? 

Which word tells us that this is a clause? 'as the sun rose'

What is the noun phrase in this sentence? 'We stopped because of the snow.'

What is the preposition in this sentence? 'We're waiting in the corridor.'

for the whole time she's been old enough. 

Which of the following is a preposition phrase that could complete this sentence? Sam has attended our school __________. 

Match each preposition phrase to the type of preposition used. 

Starter Quiz

What makes a clause different from a phrase?