Humorous remarks for children learning English

1. when, while and as

1. When can guide either a continuous action or a brief action. It can be used when the action of the main clause and the subordinate clause occur at the same time or the action of the subordinate clause precedes the action of the main clause. When the main clause is in the future tense, the tense of the subordinate clause is in the present tense. (when is used most in practice)

I told my children when Lincoln was your age he walked twelve

miles to school everyday. But my son said, "That's nothing. When he was your age, he was president."

I tell my kids: When Lincoln was your age he walked 12 miles to school every day, and my son said, "That's okay, when he was your age He was already president when he was older."

There's a side to President Reagan that people don't know. When he was a young man, he read complete works of Shakespeare. Of course, when Reagan was young, Shakespeare hadn't written all that

There is another side of President Reagan that people don’t know. When he was young, he had read the complete works of Shakespeare - of course, Shakespeare had not written that much when Reagan was young.

Note: It is a satire that Reagan has little education and is old.

When the time adverbial clause introduced by when has a synopsis structure, and its subject is consistent with the subject of the main clause, and its slogan is a noun, the elliptical clause introduced by as can be used to replace the when clause. . For example:

As a young man, he read complete works of Shakespeare.

He read complete works of Shakespeare when he was young.

When the game is finished, the king and the pawn go into to the same box.

When the game is finished, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Note: Life is like a game. At the end of the game, both billionaires and ordinary people will enter the same size coffin (or urn). Finish is a short action, and the action of the subordinate clause precedes the action of the main clause.

Scene reproduction: At a fund-raising party, you can joke like this:

How noisy an audience can be when you ask for quiet ____ and how quiet it can be when you ask for money.

(What a surprise,) the audience goes crazy when you ask for silence - and there is silence when you ask for money.