'After' as subordinating clause or a preposition

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Help please! Helping DS with homework but I'm a bit stumped on this one.

Is the word 'after' used as a subordinating conjunction or a preposition in the following sentences:

I ran outside after I had heard Jack shouting
After this, we'll go to the museum
After I had done my homework, I played on the computer.

I don't really get the difference! Please could someone explain?

MrsSteptoe I was wondering if we had to carry on with this in secondary, glad to hear it's probably not the case. Yes, you need to know how to construct a sentence but why would you need to know what all the different components of the sentence are called!

I went to uni as a mature student (just finished my degree, I'm in my 40s). I'm not sure it was my particular course or how universities tend to teach, but I found the critical thinking approach quite mind blowing after memories of school being all about learning things by rote. It was even a running joke that the tutors only ever ask the students one question, and that is "what do YOU think?". DS' future secondary school invited the year 6 students to participate in a baking class, and when DS asked if the teacher to have a look and see if she thought the cake was ready, she said "It's YOUR cake. You tell me...do you think it's ready?" I liked that.

Thank you BetweenTwoLungs, I whole-heartedly agree, it's discrimination. Surely it's no different to getting a disabled student who has difficulties walking, to compete in a race with able-bodied students?

Do we know if private schools are learning all this mumbo jumbo? G1raffe I wondered about this, as there are private schools specifically for dyslexic children who flourish there and where I'm sending DS when I win the lottery and I'm pretty sure have a completely different approach.

I will quietly add that as a child at school in the 80-90s I never learnt all this stuff and it never mattered... Until I wanted to learn a second language as an adult and then it was a massive disadvantage. I remember telling my German teacher tha t she might as well be teaching me particle physics in German as teach me technical grammatical terms (I think we were learning different cases at the time and I had no idea what a case was), I had no idea at all!

Greaterthanthesumoftheparts
Sounds like you didn't do a foreign language at school at all - was it optional in the 1980s/90s? (My impression is that one modern foreign language is compulsory to GCSE now - certainly it is at my DS's school)