Hello! Please tell me what "when" is and how it is functioning in: When I woke up she had left already.
It's a subordinating conjunction of time. CJ
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lov4romIndiaHello! Please tell me what "when" is and how it is functioning in: When I woke up she had left already.
When I woke up she had left already.
Modern grammar classifies "when" as a preposition, so the underlined element is a preposition phrase in a fused relative construction.
It can be paraphrased as At the tim