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Prepositions

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Our friends are staying with us until Sunday. {= They are leaving on Sunday.)
Our friends stayed with us until Sunday. ( = They left on Sunday.]

• until + the end of a period of time [past or future)
• After until we can use a time word or expression, e.g. until Monday, until the
end of the week, or we can use a clause with a subject and verb, e.g. until I
had children, until this programme finishes.
• until + present simple to talk about the future:
I'm going to watch television until this programme finishes.
• until is often shortened to till in spoken English.

Practice

Rewrite the sentences, using until.
1 We stayed at the party and we left at midnight.
We stayed at the party until midnight.
2 I'm watching this game. I'm going to stop watching it when it finishes.
I'm going to watch this game until it finishes.

3 They played on the beach. They stopped playing when it got dark.

4 Wait. Stop waiting when the bus stops.

5 I'm going to stay in bed. I'm going to get up at 11 o'clock.

6 We're looking round the shops. We're going to stop looking round when

the rain stops.

7 I lived by the sea. I moved away from there when I was fifteen.

8 I drove. I stopped driving when we got to London.

9 You should lie down. You should get up when you feel better.

10 I'm in the office. I'm going to leave here at 6 o'clock.

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