I did not meet Yan until sometime after Eileen was born.

[diamondcutter]

I did not meet Yan until sometime after Eileen was born.
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I don’t quite understand this sentence. Does Ray Sidney mean to say he met Yan (Eileen’s mother) after Eileen was born and Eileen is not his child?

 

[Tarheel]

That's my take on it.

 

[diamondcutter]

I’d like to ask one more question.

Do you think there’s a grammar problem in his sentence? I mean the use of “after”.

What about rewording like this?

I did not meet Yan until sometime, which is after Eileen’s birth.

 

[Tarheel]

No. Try:

I did not meet Yan until sometime after Eileen's birth.

 

[diamondcutter]

I’d like to confirm whether Ray Sidney’s sentence is wrong or my version is wrong or both are wrong.

 

[emsr2d2]

The original sentence and the sentence in post #4 are correct (and identical!)

 

[5jj]

I did not meet Yan until sometime, which is after Eileen’s birth.

That is not correct.

 

[diamondcutter]

I did not meet Yan until sometime after Eileen was born.

For the sentence above, I take “sometime” here to be a noun because “until” here is a preposition and “after Eileen was born” to be a relative clause because it modifies “sometime”.

What do you say?

 

[Tarheel]

I think you are unnecessarily confusing things. (Including me!)