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Fire1 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

What is the difference in meaning?

??1. I saw him in the swimming pool.

2. In the swimming pool, I saw him.

Q1) Are both sentences natural and grammatical?

Q2) What is the difference in meaning between 1 and 2?

Please answer two questions.

1 sounds like "It was him or was I and him who was/were in the swimming pool", but 2 sounds like "It was only I who was in the swimming pool".

  

Top answer

I see it this way. #1 sounds like your main message is 'I saw him'. #2 sounds like you want to stress where you saw him.

— Clive

  • I see it this way.
  • #1 sounds like your main message is 'I saw him'.
  • #2 sounds like you want to stress where you saw him.
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I see it this way.

#1 sounds like your main message is 'I saw him'.


#2 sounds like you want to stress where you saw him.

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