What Are Fronted Adverbials?

Fronted adverbials

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 adverbials that have been moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. They describe the rest of the sentence to come.

The fronted adverbials are in bold and underlined, at the start of each sentence below.

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.

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