Future Time Clauses and If Clauses

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Future Time Clauses and If Clauses
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• When we describe events and actions expected to
  take place in the future, we use future tenses.
  Remember we have simple future, future
  progressive and future perfect tenses.

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FUTURE CLAUSES

• But what happens when youre trying to express an
  action that will take place in the future but
  another action has to happen first for the other
  one to occur? Thats when we use

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Lets start with some examples

• As soon as Margaret gets dressed, shell make
  coffee.
• Ill stay with you until Mrs. Patterson comes.
• When the movie finishes, theyll go out to eat
  for dinner.

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What is a Clause?

• a clause is a pair or group of words that consist
  of a subject and a predicate. That gives
  additional information.
• Example Ill meet your girlfriend when the
  course starts.

MAIN SENTENCE
ADITIONAL INFORMATION
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In this kind of sentences
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Main Clause

• A main clause can stand alone as a sentence.
• The main clause has the verb in future tense.
• Example I'll be in your home when I finish my
  work.

Main clause
Future
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Future Time Clause

• Time Clause they cant be alone as a sentence,
  it is used to mark the time when an action is
  going to happen.
• The future time clause is the part of the
  sentence that has the verb in present tense.
• Example I'll be in your home when I finish my
  work.

Time clause
Present
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Why are time expressions necessary in the use of
future time clauses?

• Theyre necessary because they mark how the
  actions are going to take place. And second, they
  are use to indentify what action is going to take
  place first, last or might at the same time.
  (when, after, as soon as, until, if )

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Differences
MAIN CLAUSE TIME CLAUSE
Has the verb in future tense. Can stand alone as a sentence. It doesnt have a time expression. it doesnt determine order of the actions. Has the verb in present tense. It cant stand alone as a sentence. It has a time expression. It does determine the order of the actions.
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How is it form ?

• Put the verb in present after the time
  expression (when, after, as soon as, until, if )
• Put the other verb in future tense.
• Karen will look for a new job as soon as she has
  time.
• As soon as she has time, Karen will look for a
  new job.
• Be careful
• when you put the time clause first youll need
  to put a coma between it and the main clause.

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• Note_ the world if isnt a time expression it is
  use at the same way of the other but when it is
  use it turns in a conditional clause.

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