Meaning of "when + past participle"
I've found following sentence from one of books that I've read this week.
The second mistake we often make when stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there.
Nevertheless, I cannot understand what are the grammar points associated with it. As far as I'm concerned, in above sentence "stricken" act as a past participle rather than a adjective. Is above sentence is a passive construction?
Furthermore, please someone tell me whether following sentence has the similar meaning as above one.
The second mistake we often make when we are stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there.
In addition, in order to improve my English, I usually tend to analyse all sentences that I read based on my grammar and vocabulary knowledge, be it related to academic or general articles. Please someone tell me whether is it too much to analyse all of the sentences instead of accepting it without complete understanding of it , because even though I cannot understand the grammar points, most of the times, I can understand the meaning of the sentences.
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[1] The second mistake we often make when stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there . [2] The second mistake we often make when we are stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there . I take "stricken" to be an adjective here meaning roughly "laid low".
- [1] The second mistake we often make when stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there .
- [2] The second mistake we often make when we are stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there .
- I take "stricken" to be an adjective here meaning roughly "laid low".
- It serves as head of the underlined AdjP.
- Both examples are fine grammatically and have the same meaning.
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[1] The second mistake we often make when stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there.
[2] The second mistake we often make when we are stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there.
I take "stricken" to be an adjective here meaning roughly "laid low". It serves as head of the underline
0dileepaThe second mistake we often make when stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there.
I don't know where you live. If you are a Scandinavian, you may be familiar with the grammatical term "clause equivalent". The sentence above is a good example of what many Scandinavian grammarians call a temporal clause equivalent. We are has
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