Después question
On my spanish paper, I have sentence:
Después de las restricciones están en lugar, el gobernador tratará de ejecutar su plan financiero.
My teacher underlined the bolded "de" and told me I needed an equivalent word and that I had a structure problem...any suggestions?
2 Answers
In English your sentence seems to be:
After the restrictions are in place, the governor will try to implement his financial plan.
The restrictions being (put) in place is a future event, so you should use "después de que" followed by a phrase using the subjunctive.
My guess:
Después de que se implementen/se pongan en marcha/se establezcan/se pongan en práctica las restricciones, el gobernador tratará de ejecutar su plan financiero.
después is an adverb. It therefore, modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Try looking at the example sentences in the dictionary to figure out how it is used as:
a lone word serving as an adverb:
ellos llegaron después -> they arrived later
an adverbial phrase
quedó después del atleta ruso -> he finished behind the Russian athlete
an adverbial clause
después de que
Después de que hago el almuerzo para mis niños, voy a volver a la oficina.
Hint:
Look at despúes when followed by a noun/English gerund. You will normally find a de between the two.
después de la cena...after dinner....
después de cenar... after dining...
