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- 13-Apr-2011, 16:12 #1
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It will not be long before you get well. "It will not be long before you get well"
I found this sentence from my grammar book and wonder why we don't say "It will not be long before you will get well"
- 13-Apr-2011, 16:42 #2
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Re: It will not be long before you get well. *Not a teacher
It is correct.
It will not be long before you get well.
The highlighted clause is temporal (before introduces a temporal clause). We never use future tenses in temporal clauses. In order to express the future in temporal clauses we use present tenses.
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