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EXERCISE 54: Use the given words to write sentences of your own. Use the SJMPLE PAST.
Exampla: after I
Written:
I went to college after I graduated from high school.
After I finished dinner, I watched TV.
Etc.
1. before I came here
2. after I got home last night
3. I went . . . before I
4. after we
5. before they
6. Mr. . . . after he
(a) When the rain stopped, we took a walk. OR:
We took a walk when the rain stopped.
(b) When Tom was a child, he lived with his aunt. OR:
Tom lived with his aunt when he was a child.
When can introduce a time clause.
when + s + v = a time clause
In (a): when the rain stoaped is a time clause.
In (b): Notice that the noun (Tom) comes
before the pronoun (he).
COMPARE:
( C) When did the min stop? = a question
(d) when the min stopped = a time clause
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*See Charts 2-12 and 5-13 for information about using when in questions.
When is also used to introduce questions.* A
question is a complete sentence, as in (c). A
time clause is not a complete sentence.
EXERCISE 55: Choose the best completion. Then change the position of the time clause.
Example: When the phone rang,
the phone rang, I answered it.*
I answered the phone when it rang.
1. When the phone rang,
2. When I was in Japan,
3. Maria bought some new shoes
4. I took a lot of photographs
5. When a stranger grabbed Ann's arm,
6. Jim was a wrestler
7. When the rain stopped,
8. The antique vase broke
A. she screamed.
B. when I dropped it.
C. I closed my umbrella.
D. when he was in high school.
r/ E. I answered it.
E when she went shopping
yesterday.
G. I stayed in a hotel in Tokyo.
H. when I was in Hawaii.
*NOTE: If a sentence with a when-clause talks about two actions, the action in the when-clause happens
fust. In the sentence When the phone rang, I answered it: first the phone rang, and then I answered it.
Not logically possible: When I answered the phone, it rang.
EXPRESSING PAST TIME .
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