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Noun Time Preposition Part Speech Acting Summer Word

Front what part of speech is before acting as here

It will be some time before summer.
Back a preposition

(A preposition is word placed before a noun or noun phrase and somehow indicates the noun or noun phrase's relationship to another verb, adjective or noun (phrase.) These are words like over, by, in, to, with, etc.)

vs here, where it's a conjunction:

It will be some time before the seasons change.


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