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What is the difference between while and when ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between while and when ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Sit properly when eating.
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Sit properly while eating.
Don’t smack your lips when you eat.
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Don’t smack your lips while you eat.
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Sit properly while eating.
Don’t smack your lips when you eat.
-or-
Don’t smack your lips while you eat.
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While is used only about a continuous state, and another event or state that happens during that time. It does not imply or refute causality.
single:
The doorbell rang while I was making dinner.
continuous:
I listened to the radio while i was making dinner.
When implies a causal relationship between two things: when X happens Y happens. It can be used about a single event, an intermittent state or a continuous state
single:
Please come and see me when you are free.
continuous:
When we were young, life was simpler.
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- English (US)
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While is used only about a continuous state, and another event or state that happens during that time. It does not imply or refute causality.
single:
The doorbell rang while I was making dinner.
continuous:
I listened to the radio while i was making dinner.
When implies a causal relationship between two things: when X happens Y happens. It can be used about a single event, an intermittent state or a continuous state
single:
Please come and see me when you are free.
continuous:
When we were young, life was simpler.
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Could you tell me which one is right?
Sit properly when eating.
-or-
Sit properly while eating.
Don’t smack your lips when you eat.
-or-
Don’t smack your lips while you eat.
Sit properly when eating.
-or-
Sit properly while eating.
Don’t smack your lips when you eat.
-or-
Don’t smack your lips while you eat.
- English (US)
- Filipino
both are correct:
sit properly when eating.
sit properly while eating.
don't smack your lips when you eat.
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