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Member Location: Busan,Korea
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Hello, teachers!
Would you please tell me which is the correct choice, when or where? In the original text, 'where' is used, but since 'days' refers to a time, I think that 'when' is the correct word. Is it a typo or a special correct version? - Acute stress that occurs right before a test or a performance is our body's natural reaction to events that our body perceives as dangerous. Human developed this reaction from the days [where, when] we encountered threats such as large animals, and we needed to decide whether to run away or fight for our dinner. Almost everyone feels acute stress at one time or another, and it goes away once the event is over. Thank you very much. Best Regards. This message has been edited. Last edited by: hogel, |
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Curiously, English speakers use both relative adverbs. We don't use them in the same proportions, however. The relative adverb "when" is by far the more common of the two.
A Google search reveals 43,600 examples of "the days WHERE," but a search for "the days WHEN" turns up a whopping 1,310,000! Here are a few examples of each: "THE DAYS WHERE" "” Long gone are the days where you have multigenerational families living in the same town and usually under the same roof. http://www.africana.com/columns/brown/ls20041116insure.asp "” On the days where a specific neighboring town is honored, all schoolchildren in that town receive free admission to the Fair after 2 pm on their special day. http://www.thebige.com/detpages/bige10034.html "THE DAYS WHEN" "” The contest is held on the days when the surf is biggest and best as determined by the contest director. Daily start time 8 am. http://www.triplecrownofsurfing.com/when_is_it.php "” This commercial is a glimpse back to the days when a woman could get everything she needed to maintain a happy marriage down at the supermarket. http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomsp.html "” That takes us back to the days when a person's cave was his castle and the largest corporation was the one that went out hunting for mammoth. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/bing "” In the days when its monopoly was secure, De Beers regularly bought up any supply of rough diamonds that appeared on the market. http://www.economist.com/printedition/ PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2921462 It seems evident that the more logical relative adverb "when" is to be preferred after an expression of time, even though "where" is also used. Marilyn |
