EXPLORER: After all the searching, I'm still missing something.
NARRATOR: You're missing your 'adverbial'. Without that, you can't make a 'fronted adverbial'.
EXPLORER A WHAT?!
ROCK: Ouch!
NARRATOR: An 'adverbial' tells us more about what happened. So here, 'the man hammered the rock, 'carefully''.
The adverbial tells us more about how you hammered the rock. Carefully.
ROCK: He wasn't that careful!
NARRATOR: A fronted adverbial describes the action at the start of a sentence, instead of the end. If my craggy friend here could help a minute… thank you.
'Carefully, the man hammered the rock'.
EXPLORER: Ahhh, I see. So instead of 'I hammered the wall earlier today'… 'Earlier today, I hammered the wall'.
Ha ha! I've done it, I've discovered the secrets of the fronted adverbial!
Fronted adverbials
Adverbials are words or phrases that give more information to the sentence.
"I discovered fronted adverbials, earlier today."
'Earlier today' is the adverbial.
"Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials."
A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. So here, 'earlier today' is a fronted adverbial.
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