今天看到了一句话,搞不清楚before的作用,猜想它可能是连词引导了表语从句,但是在表语从句的引导词中没有before呀:
-What do you think it'll be like when you die?
-Probably like it was before I was born. A whole lot of nothing.
然后我又联想到了after,于是查找了以下例句:
before:
It was before I went to college.
It was five hours before I finished the work.
after:
It was after independence that the people began a new life.
It was after dark when we got back and we were all tired.
所以请教老师:这些句子是否正确?其中的before和after是什么种类的引导词?它们是引导了表语从句吗?为什么语法书上没有列出呢?