**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!
Description
A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. For example:
Earlier today, I learnt about fronted adverbials.
The words ‘earlier today’ are a fronted adverbial.
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