All mean “at the same time” or “during another happening”,
but we use them in different ways.
Here is an example:
Let’s start with DURING / dʒʊərɪŋ / or / djʊərɪŋ /.
Both pronunciations are correct.
No matter how you say it,
ALE after “during” must be a noun in the sentence.
I pronounce it / dʒʊərɪŋ /.
For example, I mean:
“I hate people who talk in the middle of movies.”
That is very annoying. Do not do it.
But instead of “in the middle of” I say “during”.
It means the same thing
and after that we have a noun, “movies”.
That’s great! That’s a good sentence! That’s great!
Beautiful,
beautiful sentence.
But what about “while”? Does that mean?
Can I use “While” instead of “During”?
No! When I say “I hate people who talk while movies”
it’s a meaningless sentence.
You can not say that.
So how do we use “while”?
The word “while” must follow a secondary sentence
Subject and hypothesis, theorem.
Let’s imagine you’re bed and trying to sleep.
And then suddenly
you will hear a loud sound.
So during what you are trying to fall asleep
you have heard the sound, there has been interference.
“While I was trying to sleep I heard a noise.”
And no matter where you place this sentence.
May be at the beginning, may follow, like:
“I heard a noise while I was trying to sleep.”
It’s alright. It does not matter where you placed it.
Note also that in both sentences there is the same subject.
“While I was trying to sleep, I heard a noise.”
In this case, you do not have to repeat the subject after “while”
So we can have it
“While trying …”
In fact, we have removed the BE verb adjunct for running times.
It does not matter if it is WAS in the past waveform or IS in the present,
and of course the subject, if it is the same,
so it might sound like this:
“I’ve heard of a noise”
or of course
“I heard a noise while trying to sleep”.
That’s also right.
BUT
if you delete the subject and the BE verb,
it sounds definitely, definitely more formal.
Keep that in mind. If you are trying to speak formally, it sounds great,
but in a normal call, it’s much more common not to do it.
I would say,
“Oh my god, last night while I was trying to sleep I heard a noise …
… and it made me cry. “
Do we have to use “while” only with the running times?
No, not necessarily.
Look at the example:
“I played drums while she slept.”
This is not the time,
it’s a simple time.
And what is the present time simple? Let’s try it!
“She eats ice cream while I work.”
or otherwise
“While I work, she just eats ice cream.”
This is a simple,
so it does not have to be past,
it does not have to be the present time,
it can be anything.
You just have to know WHILE means “upstairs” of this
or “at the same time” as this is happening.
That’s how we use it.
But how about MEANWHILE? Is that the same? It sounds the same.
How do I use it?
It also means “at the same time”, but it is usually used
when mentioning two different places, two entirely different subjects.
For example:
“In one city, Superman was flying and saving the world.”
At the same time in another city,
we can say here MEANWHILE
Remember – “meanwhile” means “at the same time”
but in another matter. So:
“Superman was flying and saving the world.”
“Meanwhile in Gotham” (in another place)
“Batman was crying.”
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