After, Later, and Before

So now we can get into after later and before we can’t use it from now.

So let’s just cross that out.

We’re not going to use that after it later and before can be used to talk about a time that happened after or before a point that’s in the future or the past future or past.

So here’s the point.

Here’s the point.

And we’re going to talk about something that happened over here or something that happened over here or something that happened over here.

Something that happened over here.

Not now.

We’re not going to focus on now.

OK so let’s say future or past future or past point It works basically the same way as in an ago except now point is moved into the future or moved into the past and we don’t talk about now some examples.

OK.

Let’s go simple at first.

OK.

A week before my vacation next June I need to get my visa if I wanted to be very specific about the time I could say in six months I’m going on vacation.

OK.

A week before my vacation which is in six months which is next June whatever I need to get my visa.

OK.

So this is June.

In the future.

OK.

And this is a week before that.

One week before.

Here’s now.

We don’t worry about that.

A week before that.

I need to get my visa which is what we need to travel.

Obviously when we travel we need a visa.

OK.

So that makes sense.

We could say there’s another pass point.

Let’s say this is my 11th birthday bidet.

We often write bidet.

OK.

Three months after my 11th birthday.

Well it’s not my 11th birthday now.

So my 11th birthday was over 70 years ago three months after my 11th birthday.

I broke my leg three months after my 11th birthday I broke my leg three months before my 11th birthday.

Three months before my 11th birthday I moved to a new city.

I moved to a new city with my family.

OK.

But again it’s from this point from this point or I could say I turned eleven on June 14th six months later something happened.

OK.

Pretty simple.

I had moved to a new city a month before.

So that’s how we can use before.

Before what.

Well before I turned eleven a month before I turned eleven which was on June 14th for example.

OK.

A few more examples.

After after getting married I became more responsible.

Now that one’s not connected to a specific date but I was married in the past and then after that time probably until now.

Maybe maybe not after that time I changed so we can use this way to express it.

So the point there is we can use events instead of dates.

For example in the future after I move to New York City NYC they also call that the Big Apple.

After I moved to New York City I plan to start small business.

So this one is not about when it happens exactly but there’s a thing that’s going to happen in the future not now and then another thing that will happen after that you could say something that will happen before that we don’t need to say the dates.

We don’t need to say exactly when we’re just trying to relate events in time.

Basically I arrived in Beijing in 2012 a year later.

I met my wife a year later.

I met my wife.

OK so this is when it happened.

Could I use for example before here.

Well yeah.

Could say a year before I met my wife.

I moved to Beijing.

Basically it’s the same idea the same idea.

If you’re hungry before 5 p.m. You’ll have to cook by yourself before we have to cook by yourself.

So OK.

Maybe a mother is talking to her son.

Usually she cooks for her son.

Today she can’t.

Maybe she’s very busy.

If you feel hungry this is in the future.

Maybe now it’s 2 p.m..

Son if you feel hungry before 5 you’ll have to cook for yourself.

OK so so that means if it’s after she will cook for him.

If this is 5 p.m. after it OK she will cook for him before she cannot she cannot.

She will be busy so he will have to cook for himself before that.

This is in the future.

One more thing very quickly.

I have so much to prepare before my exam.

I have so much to prepare before my exam.

I’m really stressed out I’m stressed out out and out OK.

So hopefully that’s clear now.

When we use in when we use a go when we use after later and before.

I hope it’s very clear.