Timeline for "You can sleep while I drive" vs. "you can sleep while I am driving"
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| Jun 13, 2020 at 14:55 | comment | added | user985366 | @NuclearWang It should rather be "My coworker normally takes the bus to work, whereas I drive." | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 19:39 | comment | added | Barmar | If I intended the first interpretation I would say "while I will drive" | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:57 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | Interesting, it seems that it might be the mismatch of tenses (sleep vs. am driving) that makes the whereas interpretation unsuitable in the second sentence. If you want you describe a regular commute, for example, you could say "My coworker is normally taking the bus to work, while I am driving" and not necessarily imply that you're both commuting simultaneously, so here the whereas interpretation makes sense. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 13:09 | vote | accept | Dmytro O'Hope | ||
| Jun 11, 2020 at 12:17 | history | answered | xngtng | CC BY-SA 4.0 |