Time Clause - STEP 2.0
Time Clause - STEP 2.0
Time Clause - STEP 2.0
He will finish reading the book after he eats dinner. (Not after he will eat dinner.)
They are going to the museum before we arrive. (Not before we are going to arrive.)
I might practice my pronunciation until my friend’s lesson has finished. (Not until my
friend’s lesson will have finished.)
Time Clause – STEP 2.0
As you can see in the examples above, when two clauses are joined by adverbs of time the
future form should not be repeated.
She will meet me after it stops raining. (Not after it will stop raining.)
I’ll turn off my computer when he does. (Not when he will.)
Times clauses and the conditionals
Time clauses, or ‘when’ clauses are often compared to ‘if’ clauses. This is a logical
comparison because when discussing the future, they are grammatically very similar to the
first conditional.