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Grammar Question involving "when"?
On SAT writing question, it had:
Rick, Marty and Steve were driving nonstop from New York to Chicago [when, falling asleep at the wheel, he fell asleep].
Obviously, this had a misplace pronoun. The correct answer was changing it to "when Rick drove the car off the road after falling asleep at the wheel". However, my question is that----
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Since you've used "when", how can you have them driving at the same time that someone drove off the car? Is it just the use of "when" that gets to me?
If so, how would you use the word "when"?
Best answer 10 points.
1 Answer
- thisbritLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Here is abnother use of "when"
My mother was baking a cake when the oven just went cold.
My hairdresser was rolling my perm when she sneezed and we all burst into giggles.
Rick drove the car off the road when he fell asleep at the wheel.
