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When a sentence about future time tells about two actions, the main action is in the future (will or be going to) and the verb in the time clause is often.
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Often, we want to talk about the future in relation to something happening in the present, so we use a “time clause.”
When a sentence about future time tells about two actions, the main action is in the future ( will or be going to ) and the verb in the time clause is often in the present tense.
(Look where the comma is!)
(I will look for a job and study during the same time period.)
Practice
Sandy and Jeff will get married.
Then Sandy will graduate.
_____________before ___________.
Marta will be 42.
Marta will get her diploma.
By the time Marta ___________diploma, _________________42.
