Timeline for Does changing the position of "when" change the meaning？
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| Jul 17, 2022 at 6:08 | history | edited | Jeffrey Carney | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2022 at 5:58 | comment | added | Michael | My intuition is that #1 gives an emphasis on the fact that 'I broke my leg', and that one might use it when he/she comes home limping and is asked what happened to him/her. #2 emphasizes what the speaker was doing when the bad luck occurred, so it might be used in a situation like being asked by a police officer about the activity one was engaged in when something occurred. | |
| Jul 17, 2022 at 4:33 | history | answered | Jeffrey Carney | CC BY-SA 4.0 |