Starter quiz
- Match the labels to the examples of fronted adverbials.
- word⇔Soon, ✓
- phrase⇔Before long, ✓
- clause⇔Before we go home, ✓
- What tells us that 'as the sun rose' is an adverbial clause?
- It begins with a subordinating conjunction. ✓
- It is a type of subordinate clause. ✓
- It does not make complete sense on its own. ✓
- It needs a main clause in order to make complete sense. ✓
- It does make complete sense on its own.
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- Tick all the sentences that start with a fronted adverbial clause.
- When we had finished, we packed up. ✓
- Then, we packed up.
- Before lunch, we finished our projects.
- Before we could go to lunch, we finished our projects. ✓
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- Decide which version of each sentence shows a fronted adverbial clause.
- Because the forest was so dark, we could barely see. ✓
- We could barely see because the forest was so dark.
- While Jun waited patiently, Miss Ofoedu marked his work. ✓
- Miss Ofoedu marked Jun's work while he waited patiently.
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- Tick all the sentences which begin with fronted adverbials of time.
- Then, it began to hail. ✓
- While the hail fell, we huddled indoors. ✓
- Frustrated, we ate our lunch quietly.
- Before we could even finish, lunch was over. ✓
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- Sam says the following sentence contains a fronted adverbial clause. Do you agree? As a surprise, Mr Clarke let us have extra play.
- Yes, because it starts with the subordinating conjunction 'as'.
- Yes, because 'As a surprise' contains a verb.
- No, because there is no verb in 'As a surprise', so it's not a clause. ✓
- No, because a clause cannot begin with 'As'.
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