Year 4 · SPaG · Fronted adverbials and commas
Year 4 place adverbials worksheet and PowerPoint
To use fronted adverbials of place, with a comma after them.
Adverbials of place
An adverbial of place tells you where something happens. Put it at the start of the sentence and add a comma.
| where | Behind the shed, we found a nest. |
|---|---|
| position | Under the bridge, the river was cold. |
| distance | In the distance, a bell rang. |
Examples
- At the top of the hill, we stopped for lunch.
- Beside the pond, the ducks slept.
Key words
- adverbial of place
- tells you where
- fronted adverbial
- an adverbial at the start of a sentence
- comma
- marks the end of the fronted adverbial
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Describe a walk through a wood in six sentences. Start each one with a different adverbial of place and put a comma after it.
Pupil target: I can start a sentence with a place adverbial.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the place adverbials PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 4 of 60 in the Year 4 SPaG scheme, in the block “Fronted adverbials and commas”.
Other lessons in this block
- What is an adverbial?
- Recognising fronted adverbials (1)
- Time adverbials
- Descriptive adverbials
- Recognising fronted adverbials (2)
- Using fronted adverbials
- Fronted adverbials together
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