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Tenses in subordinate clauses
The difference is that with present simple the clause refers to the time when the event starts, but with the present perfect version, it refers to the time when the event is finished.
So your sentence ...
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At a female bar, female bartenders serve you drinks. - What is the point in putting an adverbial phrase or clause at the beginning of a sentence?
One big difference between your examples is that the prepositional phrase "at ___" can be misunderstood for a second meaning, while "because of ___" can't.
In this case, you mean &...
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At a female bar, female bartenders serve you drinks. - What is the point in putting an adverbial phrase or clause at the beginning of a sentence?
It is not about basic meaning that can be derived from the sentence taken as a whole but about the ordering of information so that the information is delivered in an order that is conducive to the ...
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