Timeline for Until as a subordinate conjunction and a preposition
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| Apr 7 at 17:21 | comment | added | BillJ | Do not move if hurt" / "Stand up when called". | |
| Apr 7 at 16:44 | comment | added | A_Mendes | Do you have more examples of other conjunctions or prepositions like this? | |
| Apr 7 at 16:43 | comment | added | BillJ | Contemporary grammar treats "until" solely as a preposition. In your examples "called" and "proven guilty" are clausal complements of "until". They both have ellipsis of the subject "we / you" and the auxiliary verb "be". | |
| Apr 7 at 16:38 | answer | added | BillJ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 7 at 15:59 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Yes, it is short for 'until we are called'. Grammar books can only do their best to describe how the language is actually used; so-called 'rules' are not always universally true. | |
| Apr 7 at 14:19 | history | edited | A_Mendes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 7 at 14:06 | history | asked | A_Mendes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |