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Help Wanted Posted 23 years ago
Grammar
Should I use "A few years later" or "After a few years"
The passage goes like this:
Soon I will meet a man who is also a fashion designer and we will get married. Who knows, we might work in the same company.( A few years later or After a few years???), we will have two children.
BTW, is there a difference between " A few years later" and " After a few years"? Please advise, thanks teachers! T_T
Soon I will meet a man who is also a fashion designer and we will get married. Who knows, we might work in the same company.( A few years later or After a few years???), we will have two children.
BTW, is there a difference between " A few years later" and " After a few years"? Please advise, thanks teachers! T_T
Top answer
I would use "after a few years" here, since the tone is already so vague. "A few years later" would be better if some definite point in time had been established in the first sentence, with which you wanted to compare the second sentence. "
- I would use "after a few years" here, since the tone is already so vague.
- "A few years later" would be better if some definite point in time had been established in the first sentence, with which you wanted to compare the second sentence.
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I would use "after a few years" here, since the tone is already so vague. "A few years later" would be better if some definite point in time had been established in the first sentence, with which you wanted to compare the second sentence. Using it here would lead the reader to ask "a few years later than what?--after he met her, after they got married, after they went to work in the same compan
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Thank you for providing such a detailed explanation, krmir! Many thanks! ^o^
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