Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 4

Unit 6 Lesson D: Amazing stories

Vocabulary
Time expressions
after (seeing)
before (starting)
soon after (arriving)

Other words
colorful (characters) (adj)
become a member of (a club) (v)

Writing
Prepositional time clauses
You can use a prepositional time clause (preposition + verb + -ing) before or after a main
clause. It makes a sentence shorter. The subject of the two clauses must be the same:

Before starting college, she had never ridden a bicycle.

(= Before she started college, she had never ridden a bicycle.)

When the time clause is first, add a comma:

Soon after arriving on campus, she met a guy.

(= Soon after she arrived on campus, she met a guy.)

She almost left after seeing all the other cyclists.

(= She almost left after she saw the other cyclists.)

Notice in the sentences above, she is the subject of both verbs.

Cambridge University Press 2014 Unit 6, Lesson D, Page 1