A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials.

In other words fronted adverbials are words or phrases at the beginning of the sentence used to describe the action that follows. As in 'Before sunrise Zak quickly ate his breakfast'.

You might think of it as a little introduction which sits before the comma, and sets up the main part. So, in the explanation above, “quite simply” is a fronted adverbial (gold star if you spotted it) ...

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