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Adverb Event Time Mentioned Shortly Police Arrested Suspects

word afterwards
definition
adverb
If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned .
Shortly afterwards, police arrested four suspects.
James was taken to hospital but died soon afterwards.
Not long afterward she received five calls in one day.
cefr-level B2

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