ملخص الدرس / الرابعة متوسط/اللغة الإنجليزية/File 3/Subordinating Time Conjunctions

TIME CLAUSE "REFERRING TO FUTURE"

What will you do / when school finishes?

I'll stay with them /until the first week of July is over.

I'll get up and dress as quickly as possible /as soon as I hear him driving into the garage.

I'll do some motor biking /while I 'm there.

Which tenses are the verbs of the clauses:à The verbs in the complex sentences are in the 'simple present' and 'the future simple tenses'

Do the verbs refer to the present or to the future? à Though the verbs in the clauses are in the simple present tenses, both verbs in the complex sentence refer to the future

Form:     [when-as soon as-until/till-after-before-while]+present /   à                future

               Subordinate time clause                                                                  Main clause

[ as soon as-when – before-after-until-till –while ] are "subordinating time conjunctions. (they introduce subordinating time clauses the verbs which comes after them is in the 'present simple tense

  1. The correct sentence is: When the holidays finish, we'll come back school.

Form:

 [when-as soon as-until/till-after-before-while]+present / →      future

               Subordinate time clause                                                    Main clause

[ as soon as-when – before-after-until-till –while ] are "subordinating time conjunctions. (they introduce subordinating time clauses the verbs which comes after them is in the 'present simple tense

The correct sentence is: When the holidays finish, we'll come back school.

the table

Since

Whereas

Unless

Even though In case So that As
Although Though  Given That  In spite of Or Or

While

Nevertheless

Therefore

Despite As Which
On the  contrary  Talking  of After all

Anyway

On one hand  On the other hand
 Before  After  In case  

for instance 

 In other words

By the way
Who Because

 Not with standing

So

Until

As long as
And For

Furthermore

To

As if 

However
But so that

As for

In order to

When

Whose