If you're a good boy at the doctor's I'll take you swimming afterwards.
Everyone would go into the hall for assembly and then afterwards we'd go to our respective classes.
He said he had to go to a meeting now, but that afterwards he'd come and discuss the problem.
Consumption increases slightly at the moment of the shock because of the transfer of resources from investment, decreasing afterward because of the negative wealth effect.
During the performance, he recovers and begins to enjoy himself, though he collapses again directly afterward.
After these immediate measurements, samples were then placed on ice and tested for active photosynthesis at various time intervals afterward.
1 After as a preposition and conjunction
After means ‘later than’ and ‘next in time or place’.
2 After or afterwards as an adverb
We can use after as an adverb, but afterwards is more common. When after is used, it is usually as part of an adverb phrase:
When after refers to future time, we use the present simple, not the future with shall or will:
