{"id":73462,"date":"2020-03-26T06:19:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73462"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:19:13","slug":"until-and-till","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/until-and-till\/","title":{"rendered":"Until And Till"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two words mean exactly the same. They can be used both as prepositions and conjunctions. Note that\u00a0<b>until<\/b>\u00a0is more formal than\u00a0<b>till.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will wait\u00a0<b>until\/till<\/b>\u00a0I hear from you.<\/li>\n<li>Wait<b>\u00a0until\/till\u00a0<\/b>tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>Wait\u00a0<b>until\/till\u00a0<\/b>he returns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Until\/till and to<\/h3>\n<p><b>To\u00a0<\/b>can sometimes be used as a preposition of time with the same meaning as\u00a0<b>until\/till<\/b>. This happens after\u00a0<b>from \u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I usually work\u00a0<b>from\u00a0<\/b>ten\u00a0<b>to\u00a0<\/b>six. (OR I usually work\u00a0<b>from\u00a0<\/b>ten\u00a0<b>until\/till\u00a0<\/b>six.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cases where until\/till is not used<\/h3>\n<p><b>Until\/till<\/b>\u00a0is used only to talk about time. To talk about distance, we use\u00a0<b>to, as far as\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>up to<\/b>;\u00a0<b>up to<\/b>\u00a0is also used to talk about quantity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We walked\u00a0<b>as far as\/up to\u00a0<\/b>the edge of the forest. (NOT \u2026until\/till the edge of the forest.)<\/li>\n<li>You can earn\u00a0<b>up to\u00a0<\/b>$100 a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is sometimes possible to use\u00a0<b>until\/till<\/b>\u00a0before a place name in the sense of\u00a0<i>\u2018until we get to \u2026\u2019.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go straight on\u00a0<b>until\/till\u00a0<\/b>you come to the post office and then turn left.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tenses after until<\/h3>\n<p>After\u00a0<b>until<\/b>, we use present tenses to refer to the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will wait\u00a0<b>until\u00a0<\/b>she\u00a0<b>returns.\u00a0<\/b>(NOT \u2026 until she will return.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two words mean exactly the same. They can be used both as prepositions and conjunctions. Note that\u00a0until\u00a0is more formal than\u00a0till. I will wait\u00a0until\/till\u00a0I hear from you. Wait\u00a0until\/till\u00a0tomorrow. Wait\u00a0until\/till\u00a0he returns. Until\/till and to To\u00a0can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2281,2280,2283,2282],"class_list":["post-73462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-till","tag-until","tag-until-and-till","tag-until-vs-till"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73463,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73462\/revisions\/73463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}