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Fronting

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General points
When part of a sentence is moved from its normal position to the beginning of the sentence, we call this fronting. The part of the sentence moved to the front might be the object or some other complement, an adverbial or even the main verb itself. Fronting is used by writers (authors, journalists etc) for dramatic effect. It ...Read more

 
 

 

 
 
 
Fronting - word ordering exercises
Set of nine sentences. Drag words and phrases into the correct position.
 
 

 

 
 
 
New Inside Out Student's Book Advanced book cover 
New Inside Out Student's Book Advanced
Unit 2 Taste  Page 18   Fronting
(1) word ordering - students put words from a previously read text in the order they think correct (2) check with text and compare their 'standard' word order with the fronted examples in the text
 
 
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