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Ahn Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Can I use 'That was when~~'?

0For example,02br
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01b00"I came home at 9 PM yesterday. 01font00That was when02font00 my sister was watching the news."02b02br
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01b00"She had a headache and felt very tired. Besides,01font00 that was when02font00 her baby brother needed her help."02b02br
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00Does it make sense to use 'that was when' in those situations?0-
  

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0 Yes, but I'd say02br 01b 01i 00at that time02i 02b 0-

— Marius Hancu

  • 0 Yes, but I'd say02br 01b 01i 00at that time02i 02b 0-
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0 Yes, but I'd say02br
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0Thank you.02br
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00Then, do you mean02br
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01b00"I came home at 9 PM yesterday. 01font00At that time 02font00my sister was watching the news." ?02b02br
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01cite10Ahn12cite10Thank you.12br
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10Then, do you mean12br
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11b10"I came home at 9 PM yesterday. 11font10At that time 12font10my sister was watching the news." ?12b12br
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10Did I get it right?12br
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0I see. Thank you very much, Marius Hancu! 050010id1
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0"That was when" is common in conversation, but "at that time" is more formal and therefore more approprate for most writing.0-
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0I appreciate your further explanation, Khoff.02br
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00By the way, I used 'at that time' two times in the essay. So I feel it's better to use another expression and 'That was when' was the alternative to that. I don't know if it's ok that I use 'at that time' three times in one essay.0-
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0 01i00I came home at 9 PM yesterday. My sister was watching the news at the time.02br
00 When I came home at 9PM yesterday, my sister was watching the news.02br
00 I came home at 9 PM yesterday to find my sister watching the news.02br
00 I came home at 9 PM yesterday while my sister was watching the news.02br
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00 She ha
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0Thank you a lot, CaifJim. Your answers are alwarys very valuable.02br
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00Reading your answer, I found that I gave wrong examples in my question. It seems that the sentences I wrote in an essay has different context from my examples I gave. So I'll write the sentences written in my essay. 02br
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01b00Hobsbawm judges that Europe was rapidly ch
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0 I don't think it's wrong to use 01i00that was when02i00 as you use it in your essay. All I can tell you is that I would have written something else. I think there might be a more effective way to express the idea of simultaneous historical developments. I might have written this:02br
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01i00Besides, it was during this period that rep
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0Many thanks for your help, CalifJim.02br
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00The main subject of the essay is about the reason traditions were made.02br
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00The point is that people needed social stability because the world was changing so rapidly 00in the 00 00late 19th and early 20th centuries00, so traditions00 had to be created. And the appearance of repre
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