We voted before conrad arrived.
The three main Indian groups in North America before European explorers arrived were the Eastern Woodland tribes in the East, the Plains tribes in the Midwest, and the Pueblo tribes in the Southwest. Each group had its own distinct cultural practices, languages, and ways of life shaped by their environment.
I used a graphic organizer to map out my ideas before writing my essay.
The sentence should be: "Jack and Jill went up the hill, and they fetched a pail of water." The comma is placed before the coordinating conjunction "and" to separate the two independent clauses in the sentence.
Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering Montserrat in 1493 during his second voyage to the Americas. However, it is likely that the island was already inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Carib peoples before Columbus arrived.
The first settlers in Maine were likely Native American tribes such as the Abenaki, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy who have inhabited the region for thousands of years before European settlers arrived. The first European explorers to reach Maine were likely Norse Vikings around the year 1000, but the first permanent European settlement was established by the English in the early 1600s.
This is a declarative sentence.
theyhad arrived just before the meeting started.
compound
The Incas were here in the Andes before the Spanish arrived.
"Before" can be used as a preposition to indicate the position in time or space that something occurs. In the sentence "She arrived before the meeting," "before the meeting" is a prepositional phrase that tells when she arrived.
She left the room.
The subordinating conjunction in the sentence is "before".
This sentence has one verb phrase - had prepared - and one single verb - arrived.Had prepared is past perfect. It shows some thing that happened in the past before another thing that happened in the past - arrived - which is past simple.
The subordinating conjunction in the sentence, "Before I leave on the sixth, we need to pay the bills," is the word before.
The firemen arrived first, then the police. We wanted to see the movie first, before our friends did.
I had had that conversation once before. She had had her hair done 3 times in the last month. Want more?
The thieves crept into the museum at night.