Correct usage
1. He was declared fit for work and continued for 5 years, untill he inherited a substantial amount of money and retired.
2. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Untill such time, he will remain incarcerated.
How does the usage of untill differ in these examples in terms of one starting a sentence and one not?
Could you write it this way?
He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, untill such time he will remain incarcerated.
Top answer
" The first sentence is ok; the second makes no logical sense. There is no time point in the first sentence that can be connected to "such time" in the second. Adverbials are rather flexible in their placement at the beginning or end of the sentence.
- " The first sentence is ok; the second makes no logical sense.
- There is no time point in the first sentence that can be connected to "such time" in the second.
- Adverbials are rather flexible in their placement at the beginning or end of the sentence.
- I will be waiting here until he arrives.
- ) Until he arrives, I will be waiting here.
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The spelling is "until."
The first sentence is ok; the second makes no logical sense. There is no time point in the first sentence that can be connected to "such time" in the second.
Adverbials are rather flexible in their placement at the beginning or end of the sentence.
I will be waiting here until he arrives. (Most of the time native speakers put it at the end.)
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