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DialFrost
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" When" "When" in adverbial clauses

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" When" in adverbial clauses

He was watching TV when I came in.

I came in when he was watching TV.

As we know, simple or continuous verb forms can be used in when-clauses. It seems the second example is semantically different from the first one. If so, what is the difference between these two examples in usage of "when"?