What is the voice of the present tense clause?

1. Present tense of subject and subordinate: If the main clause is in the future tense or expresses future meaning, then the conditional and time adverbial clauses are usually in the present tense.

For example: When I grow up, I will be a nurse and look after patients/ I want to be a nurse and look after patients. I want to be a nurse and look after patients.

2. The main clause is an imperative sentence, and the subordinate clause usually uses the present tense.

For example: Don’t laugh at me when I make a mistake.

3. The subject is present: If the main clause is in the present tense containing a modal verb, the subordinate clauses should use the present tense as needed.

For example: You should be quiet when you are in the reading room. You should be quiet when you are in the reading room.

Extended information

Situations when using the simple present tense in other clauses:

1. If the conditional adverbial clause of if encounters the transformation of indirect and direct, the imperative sentence should be used not to....

For example: "Don'tclose the window if the rain stops," she said.→She said not to close the window if the rain stops. window.

Common conjunctions of time adverbial clauses include: as soon as, when, while, as, until, etc.

2. What the subject and subordinate are saying now is when they contain time adverbial clauses and conditions In a subject-subordinate compound sentence with an adverbial clause, if the tense of the main clause is the future simple tense, then the subordinate clause must use the present tense.

For example: I will tell him about it when he comes.→If it is fine tomorrow, we will go outing. If the weather is good tomorrow, we will go out.

3. If the tense of the main clause is past future tense, then the subordinate clause should use simple past tense. For example:

He said that he would have another try if he had the chance.→I knew he could help me if he was free the next day. .

The main signs are: if, unless, until, when, as soon as, etc.

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