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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

After or afterwards ?

We booked the concert ticket after / afterwards to know that Mary will not join with us
  

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There are a couple of places in your sentence that need a touch of help. Strictly answering your question, you want after not afterwards. " May I suggest: We booked the concert tickets after discovering that Mary would not join us.

— Unclefegg

  • There are a couple of places in your sentence that need a touch of help.
  • Strictly answering your question, you want after not afterwards.
  • " May I suggest: We booked the concert tickets after discovering that Mary would not join us.
  • After shows the sequence of events in time where both events are mentioned in the same sentence.
  • Example: This happened after that happened.
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There are a couple of places in your sentence that need a touch of help.

Strictly answering your question, you want after not afterwards. However, I wonder if you aren't using "to know" when you mean "to find out" or "to discover."

May I suggest:

We booked the concert tickets after discovering that Mary would not join us.

After shows the sequence of ev
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Hi,
We booked the concert ticket after / afterwards to know that Mary will not join with us
Not correct.

Here are simpler examples for you to consider.

eg I watched TV after I cooked dinner. This means 'first
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Thanks teacher. Then afterwards and thereafter is same? Mei Ling
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Hi,



No.

'Thereafter' refers to a long period of time after some point, maybe forever.



He was rude to me. Thereafter, I did not speak to him.



Compare

I cooked dinner. Afterwards, I ate it.



Clive
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