[Grammar] It will not be long before you get well.

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wotcha

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"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"
 

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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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