TIME CLAUSES

When you get back, dinner will be ready.
(Quando você voltar, o jantar estará pronto.)

TIME CLAUSE:
When you get back
When = time conjunction
get = simple present

MAIN CLAUSE:
dinner will be ready
will be = simple future


ORAÇÃO ADVERBIAL TEMPORAL
Quando você voltar
Quando = conjunção temporal

ORAÇÃO PRINCIPAL
o jantar estará pronto

As orações subordinadas adverbiais temporais são aquelas introduzidas por conjunções temporais. Quando, nesse tipo de período, a oração principal estiver no "FUTURE TENSE", a oração adverbial temporal deverá estar no "PRESENT TENSE".



PRINCIPAIS CONJUNÇÕES TEMPORAIS

AS SOON AS = assim que
AFTER = depois (de)
BEFORE = antes (de)
BY THE TIME = quando, na época em que
SINCE = desde que
UNTIL (TILL) = até
WHEN = quando
WHENEVER = quando quer que, sempre que
WHILE = enquanto


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This book is a fully updated version of the classic grammar title. This third edition has 10 completely new units, including 9 new units on phrasal verbs to more throughly cover this important area for intermediate students. Has even more Additional Exercises, to offer more contrastive practice; is in full colour and has a slightly larger format to look clearer and more inviting for students. The with answers version of the book is packaged with the CD-ROM. This CD-ROM has a diagnostic test to help students identify areas to practise; extra exercises for all the units in the book; allows users to make their own tests from a bank of contrastive exercises; has recordings of all the main exercises so users can practise their pronunciation; includes a link to Cambridge Dictionaries Online so students can look up any words they need.


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