词汇 | grammar_british-grammar_until |
释义 | UntilUntil is a preposition and a conjunction. Until is often shortened to till or ’til. Till and ’til are more informal and we don’t usually use them in formal writing. Until as a prepositionUntil as a preposition means ‘up to (the time that)’:
We use from with until or till to talk about when something begins and when it ends:
We use by, not until, to talk about something that will happen before a particular time or deadline:
We don’t use until or till to talk about quantity or numbers. We use up to:
We don’t use until or till to talk about distance. We use as far as:
Until as a conjunctionWe use until as a subordinating conjunction to connect an action or an event to a point in time:
Warning: We don’t normally put the until-clause before the main clause:
We use present verb forms to refer to the future after until:
We also use the present perfect after until to refer to actions or events that will continue up to a point in the future:
We use the past simple and past perfect to talk about events in the past:
Warning: We can’t use until or till to mean ‘in advance of’. In this case we use before:
Until: typical errorsWe don’t use until to talk about things that will happen before a particular time or deadline; we use by:
We don’t use until or till to talk about quantity; we use up to:
We don’t use until or till to talk about distance; we use as far as:
Take care to spell until with only one l at the end: not ‘untill’. |
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