Skill 7: Use adverbs time and cause connectors correctly

Sentences with adverb clauses have two basic patterns in English, study the clauses and connectors in the following sentences:

I will sign the check before you leave.
Before you leave, I will sign the check.

In each of these examples, there are two clauses: you leave and i will sign the check, and the clause you leave is an adverb time clause because it is introduced with the connector before. In the first example the connector before comes in the middle of the sentence, and no comma (,) is used. In the second example the connector comes at the beginning of the sentence, a comma (,) is required in the middle of the sentence.

ADVERB TIME AND CAUSE CONNECTORS

TIME CAUSE
after as soon as once when as now that
as before since whenever because since
as long as by the time until while insasmuch as

Teresa went inside because it was raining
s v adverb connector s v

adverb connector s v s v
Because it was raining Teresa went inside