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> I noticed something funny about the English language (might be similar
> with many other languages as well):
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> Most sentences of the form "A when B" can be changed to "when B, A" and
> it will still be a valid sentece and the meaning won't change. For
> example:
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> "Tom panicked when he heard the news."
> "When he heard the news, Tom panicked."
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> Can you think of any sentence of the form "A when B" which does not work
> in the form "when B, A" (or the other way around)?
I think it depends on the tense...
"Tom panicks when he hears the news." (scared of any kind of news)
"When he hears the news, Tom panicks." (some specific news)
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