RonTargetTestPrepB] The limousine driver waited for almost an hour before deciding that his client was not going to show up.
is 'before' a preposition? How do I not confuse it with 'dependent clause marker'
could you please help me understand how this ''before deciding that his client was not going to show up'' is well structured and equal to choice F] below? Is this an appositive phrase?
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F] The limousine driver waited for almost an hour before he decided that his client was not going to show up.
-I was really looking for this F] choice where 'before' is a dependent clause marker and 'that' is used as a connector b/w two clauses
RonTargetTestPrep wrote:
himanshu0123 wrote:
in B] how do I identify that the 2nd clause is a verbless clause.
Clauses have verbs. If something doesn't have a verb, it's not a clause.
There's only one way you could possibly have a clause without an explicit verb—namely, if there are 2 or more parallel clauses that all use the same verb in the same context. In such cases, it may be possible to omit the repeated instances of the verb, just as other repetitions can often be omitted in parallel forms [especially comparisons].
This is not happening here.
The part you're citing is just "before" + NOUN, which is an ordinary prepositional phrase (structured in the same way as "I'll pick up donuts and coffee
before work").
The _ing form here is grammatically a noun. That's a common functionality of _ing forms (e.g.,
Swimming is fun).