Practise and revise adverbials of time, place and manner with this bright, appealing PDF grammar worksheet.
Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
This primary resource is divided into five sections:
Understand
Underline the adverbial in each sentence and sort the adverbials to indicate whether they show time, place or manner
Challenge
Write sentences about the image using time adverbials given.
Test
Add fronted adverbials to the sentences and indicate whether an adverbial is showing time, place or manner within a sentence
Explain
Explain what information an adverbial can add to a sentence.
Apply
Write a story start based on the image given using adverbials to show time, place and manner
What are adverbials?
Adverbials give information about the action taking place within a sentence. They can show when (time), where (place), how (manner) or how often (frequency/number)
Examples of adverbials
later
nearby
nervously
secondly
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time [for example, later], place [for example, nearby], and number [for example, secondly] or tense choices [for example, he had seen her before]