If, Where, Before and After

What are we learning today?

You will learn to join sentences with "if", "where", "before" and "after".

Explanation

• "If" for a general fact: use the present simple in both parts.
• "Where" for a place: "That's the hotel where we stayed."
• "Before" and "after" show the order of events.
• Put a comma after a clause at the start: "After we arrived, we had lunch."

Examples

1. If you heat ice, it melts.
2. This is the station where we got off.
3. After we got off the coach, we walked to the hotel.

Remember!

• Do not use "will" in both parts of a general fact.
• Do not use "where" for people.
• Do not mix up "before" and "after".

Check yourself

1. If you heat ice, it ___. (melt)
2. We had lunch. Then we went home. We went home ___ we had lunch. (before / after)
3. Where does the comma go: "After we arrived we had lunch"?