Abstract
Every German teacher in the United States has probably seen or heard sentences like these from his or her students. One's first impulse will most likely be to remind the students that they should use nachdem since they need a conjunction here. But this correction still would not solve the basic problem in the sentence. Whereas it is possible and even common usage in American English to use a simple present or past tense in a clause starting with after, the tense in the German nachdem-clause has to be further removed in the past than the tense in the main clause. Evans and Evans in A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage give the following examples for the use of the conjunction after:
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