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Please explain the use of "when" in "when learning...". I read that "when" is a subordinating conjunction but it is used when to events or situations happening at the same time.
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This guide will provide you with information about the terminology your child will come across when learning about sentence structure and connectives in school , and includes suggestions as to how you could support them at home. The first part of your question has already been answered by GPY. Traditional grammar takes "when" to be a conjunction in examples like yours, irrespective of whether the events/situation are contemporaneous.
- This guide will provide you with information about the terminology your child will come across when learning about sentence structure and connectives in school , and includes suggestions as to how you could support them at home.
- The first part of your question has already been answered by GPY.
- Traditional grammar takes "when" to be a conjunction in examples like yours, irrespective of whether the events/situation are contemporaneous.
- But in modern grammar, the analysis of the underlined expressions is in fact quite problematic since it rejects the classification of "when" as a conjunction.
- One solution is to treat it as a preposition phrase, with the prep when as head and a subordinate gerund-participial clause as complement.
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This guide will provide you with information about the terminology your child will come across when learning about sentence structure and connectives in school, and includes suggestions as to how you could support them at home.
The first part of your question has already been answered by GPY.
Traditional grammar takes "when" to be a conjunction in examples like y
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