Sentences with the phrase “while. Sentences with conjunctions while, while, while, whereas While he

A comma is placed before the conjunction HOW in three cases:

1. If this conjunction is included in phrases that are close in their role in the sentence to the introductory words, for example: AS A RULE, AS AN EXCEPTION, AS A CONSEQUENCE, AS ALWAYS, AS NOW, AS ON PURPOSE, AS FOR EXAMPLE, AS NOW: In the morning, as if on purpose, it started to rain;

2. If this conjunction connects parts of a complex sentence, for example: We watched for a long time as the coals of the fire smoldered;

3. If the sentence contains a circumstance expressed by a comparative phrase that begins with the conjunction HOW, for example: Her voice rang like the smallest bell;

Please note: if the sentence continues after the phrase with the conjunction HOW, then you need to put another comma at the end of the phrase. For example: Below, the water shone like a mirror; We watched for a long time as the coals of the fire smoldered, unable to tear ourselves away from this spectacle.

The phrases with the conjunction HOW are not isolated in five cases:

1. If the phrase with the conjunction HOW in a sentence acts as an adverbial circumstance of the course of action, for example: The path twisted like a snake. In such cases, the phrase with HOW can be replaced with an adverb (IN SNAKE) or a noun in the instrumental case (SNAKE). Unfortunately, the circumstances of the course of action cannot always be distinguished with complete confidence from the circumstances of comparison.

2. If the phrase with the conjunction HOW is part of a phraseological unit, for example: During lunch she sat as if on pins and needles;

3. If a phrase with the conjunction HOW is part of the predicate and a sentence without such a phrase does not have a complete meaning, for example: She behaves like a mistress;

4. If the conjunction HOW stands between the subject and the predicate (without this conjunction a dash would have to be placed there), for example: The lake is like a mirror;

5. If the comparative phrase is preceded by the negation NOT or the particle AT ALL, COMPLETELY, ALMOST, LIKE, EXACTLY, EXACTLY, SIMPLY, for example: They don't do everything like neighbors or Her hair is curly just like her mother's;

In addition, we must remember that the word AS can be part of the compound conjunction AS... SO AND... or SO AS, as well as phrases SINCE AS, SINCE THE TIME AS, AS LESS (MORE) POSSIBLE, etc. In this case, naturally, a comma is not placed before HOW, for example: All the windows, both in the manor's house and in the servants' rooms, are wide open.(Saltykov-Shchedrin). He did not take cutlets with him for breakfast and now regretted it, since he was already hungry(According to Chekhov).

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I would have heard the door opening.

She was pale with some kind of Hindu pallor, the moles on her face became darker, the blackness of her hair and eyes seemed even blacker (Bunin).

And is this really how Paris lived now? (Bunin).

Well, I’ll help, father, just don’t blame me if it doesn’t turn out as planned.

I rarely visited “noble” houses, but in the theater I was like one of my own - and I ate a lot of pies from pastry shops (Turgenev).

When I went to bed, I, I don’t know why, turned around on one leg three times, put on lipstick, lay down and slept like a log all night (Turgenev).

It will sound and whine like a string, but don’t expect a song from it (Turgenev).

Everything about us is not like people! (Saltykov-Shchedrin).

Now, wrapped in a cap and a cloak, from under which a rifle protruded, he rode with one murid, trying to be noticed as little as possible, carefully peering with his quick black eyes into the faces of the inhabitants he came across along the road (Tolstoy).

Millions of people committed against each other such countless atrocities, deceptions, betrayals, thefts, forgeries and the issuance of false banknotes, robberies, arson and murders, which the chronicle of all the courts of the world will not collect for centuries and for which, during this period of time, people, those who committed them did not look at them as crimes (Tolstoy).

The guests arrived out of the blue.

A boy of about fifteen quickly came out of the door to meet him and stared in surprise at the newcomers with sparkling eyes as black as ripe currants (Tolstoy).

While Hadji Murad was entering, an elderly, thin, thin woman came out of the inner door, wearing a red beshmet on a yellow shirt and blue trousers, carrying pillows. (Tolstoy).

I did not accompany the captain as a servant. The clean spring air, compared to prison, also cheered her, but it was painful to step on the stones with feet unaccustomed to walking and shod in clumsy prison boots, and she looked at her feet and tried to step as lightly as possible (Tolstoy).

One of them, the most extravagant, was that I wanted to go to him, explain myself to him, confess everything to him, frankly tell him everything and assure him that I did not act like a stupid girl, but with good intentions (Dostoevsky).

So I studied and studied, but ask me how a person should live, I don’t even know (Tolstoy).

These experiments could have been carried out either a month earlier or a month later.

The streets between the houses were narrow, crooked and deep, like cracks in a rock (Andreev).

Amateurs use this fish as a natural clock in a room aquarium (According to V. Matizen).

In the west, the sky is greenish and transparent all night, and there, on the horizon_ as it is now_, something is smoldering and smoldering... (Bunin).

Rostov felt how, under the influence of the hot rays of love... that childish smile blossomed on his soul and face, which he had never smiled with since he left home (Tolstoy).

There were people in the carriage like sardines in a barrel.

It contains irony, not as a style feature or technique, but as part of the author’s general worldview (Lakshin).

When Stepan Trofimovich, already ten years later, conveyed this sad story to me in a whisper, having first locked the doors, he swore to me that he was so dumbfounded then on the spot that he did not hear or see how Varvara Petrovna disappeared (Dostoevsky).

But the eyes do not seem to be stupid and shiny, like those of Maria Kresse (Bulgakov).

“If they knew that you wanted this, the holiday would be cancelled,” said the prince, out of habit, like a wound clock, saying things that he did not want to be believed (Tolstoy).

Armande was already beginning to despair when the local curé, François Loiseau, arrived from Auteuil and became friends with Moliere while he was living in Auteuil (Bulgakov).

But before they had time to rise, a bell rang impatiently behind the doors upstairs (Bulgakov).

“Torment,” he said, “them: now their prayer book is gone,” and he galloped past; and behind this stratopedarch are his warriors, and behind them, like a flock of skinny spring geese, are boring shadows, and everyone nods to the ruler sadly and pitifully, and everyone quietly moans through their crying: “Let him go! “He alone prays for us” (Leskov).

Seeing this, people stopped dead in their tracks. “We've eaten enough, my dears! We celebrated the winter, but by spring our stomachs were sagging!” - Porfiry Vladimirych is reasoning with himself, and he, as if on purpose, had just brought all the accounts of last year’s field farming into clarity (Saltykov-Shchedrin).

As if on purpose, he didn’t come today, and I still have a whole terrible night ahead of me! (Bunin).

Understand that this child whom you are now receiving in the Poklen house is none other than Mister de Molière! (Bulgakov).

The bazaar is like another city within the city (Bunin).

However, the consistent application of this method, which treats literature not as the fruit of organic creativity, but as a medium of cultural communication, eventually began to slow down the development of literary criticism (Epstein).

Next to him she felt like behind a stone wall. He had been silent until now, and no one paid any attention to him, but now everyone looked back at him, and, probably, everyone wondered how he could still remain unnoticed (Leskov).

Still young, handsome in appearance, with a fortune, gifted with many brilliant qualities, undoubted wit, taste, inexhaustible gaiety, he appeared not as a seeker of happiness and protection, but rather independently (Dostoevsky).

Half of them even died, but they were not amenable to education: they stood in the yard - everyone was amazed and even shied away from the walls, but everyone just looked at the sky like birds with their eyes squinting (Leskov).

He screams like an eagle: stop, I’ll shoot! (Bunin).

If the introductory word can be omitted or rearranged to another place in the sentence without disturbing its structure (usually this happens with conjunctions “and” and “but”), then the conjunction is not included in the introductory construction - a comma needed.

For example: “Firstly, it became dark, and, secondly, everyone was tired.”

If the introductory word cannot be removed or rearranged, then a comma after the conjunction (usually with the conjunction “a”) not placed.

For example: “She simply forgot about this fact, or maybe she never remembered it,” “..., and therefore, …”, “..., and maybe …”, “..., and therefore, …”.

If the introductory word can be removed or rearranged, then a comma needed after the conjunction “a”, since it is not associated with the introductory word.

For example: “She not only didn’t love him, but maybe even despised him.”

If at the beginning of the sentence there is a coordinating conjunction (in the connecting meaning) (“and”, “yes” in the meaning of “and”, “too”, “also”, “and that”, “and that”, “yes and”, “ and also”, etc.), and then an introductory word, then a comma before it need not.

For example: “And really, you shouldn’t have done that”; “And perhaps it was necessary to do something differently”; “And finally, the action of the play is ordered and divided into acts”; “Besides, other circumstances have come to light”; “But of course, everything ended well.”

Happens rarely: if at the beginning of a sentence worth the connecting union, A the introductory construction stands out intonationally, then commas are NEEDED.

For example: “But, to my great chagrin, Shvabrin decisively announced...”; “And, as usual, they remembered only one good thing.”

Always written WITHOUT commas:

Firstly

at first sight

for sure

similarly

More or less

literally

in addition

in the (eventual) end

in the end

as a last resort

best case scenario

Anyway

at the same time

overall

mostly

especially

in some cases

through thick and thin

subsequently

otherwise

as a result

due to this

in this case

in the same time

in this regard

mainly

often

exclusively

at most

meanwhile

just in case

in case of emergency

if possible

as far as possible

still

practically

approximately

with all that

with (all) desire

on occasion

equally

the biggest

at the very least

actually

in addition

to top it off

by the proposal

by decree

by decision

traditionally

A comma is NOT placed at the beginning of a sentence:

“Before... I found myself...”

"Since…"

"Before as…"

"Although…"

"As…"

"In order to…"

"Instead of…"

"Actually..."

"While…"

“Especially since...”

"Nevertheless…"

“Despite the fact that...” (at the same time - separately); There is NO comma before “what”.

"If…"

"After…"

“And…”

« Finally" in the meaning of "finally" - is not separated by commas.

« And this despite the fact that..."- a comma is always placed in the middle of a sentence!

« Based on this, …"- a comma is placed at the beginning of the sentence.

BUT: “He did this based on...” - no comma is used.

« After all, if... then..." - a comma is not placed before "if", since the second part of the double conjunction - "then" - comes next. If there is no “then”, then a comma is placed before “if”!

« Less than two years..." - a comma is not placed before “what”, because this is not a comparison.

Comma before "How" is placed only in case of comparison.

« Politicians like Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov...” - a comma is added because there is a noun "policy".

BUT: "… policies such as Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov…” - there is no comma before “how”.

Commas are not used:

“God forbid”, “God forbid”, “for God’s sake”- not separated by commas, + the word “god” is written with a small letter.

BUT: commas are placed in both directions:

"God bless" in the middle of the sentence it is highlighted with commas on both sides (the word “God” in this case is written with a capital letter) + at the beginning of the sentence - it is highlighted with a comma (on the right side).

"By God"- in these cases, commas are placed on both sides (the word “god” in this case is written with a small letter).

"My God"- separated by commas on both sides; in the middle of the sentence, “God” - with a small letter.

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Sentences containing "while"

Wavell and O'Connor knew How fight in the desert then time How the Italians obviously knew only that How camp in the desert.
Having won, the Japanese, however, lost time siege of 58,000 people, then time How Russian losses amounted to 31,000.
In time takeoff I took a place behind Ray, then time How he was helping Dig.
In my time the Cossack department consisted of about 150 cadets, then time How there were 105 cadets in our so-called squadron.
Saal found time laugh at our strange prey, then time How the train was filled with gold and silver.
For example, it would not occur to anyone in the summer time dry the lamb, then time How This is common in the fall.
Around the same time time I How then sat next to the entrance to Cathay in time show.
At that time How We risk our lives, you spend yours every day time for aimless activities.
At that time How all this should have happened peacefully time and with the most friendly attitude towards the Soviet Union, towards this new system.
To kill time, the hunter learned everything time sleep and How snake, rose only when necessary.
Everything from me time were waiting for a miracle, and I already knew that if in the near future time If I don’t show this miracle, they’ll attack me, How dogs on a bone.
How at my father's time holidays, so did grandfather during school time I worked on the farm during my free time from school time.
Time stretched out How this happens in time accidents.
It was time concentration of thought, time intensive reading and enrichment of one’s knowledge, time intensive literary work.
At that time attitude towards sports was extremely serious, although such conditions How currently time, of course, it wasn’t.
In time reviewing this assignment time from time to time I felt the curious gaze of first one, then the other.
At the same time mother constantly grumbled that Tiger was about to turn nineteen and that it was time time bring your wife to the house.
Fearing that he will not be able to contain his feelings in time speeches, Byron wrote his speech and learned it, How in time performances in Harrow.
In it time Leonid writes the play " Time good intentions" for the graduation performance of the Shchukin School.
Nina Berberova recalled the episode, How Olya How- she said: “And you see: in your time didn't get married, and in general, everything's not How everyone has".
Showed her How take measurements How make patterns, How cut, How try on, How throw loops and everything else you need to know.
How and in Karabakh, How and in Sumgayit, How and in Baku, How and in Osh, How and in Fergana, How and in Tiraspol, How and in Tbilisi, How and in Tskhinvali.
flies time: you won’t have time to smoke a cigar and read the latest French novel to your heart’s content, How it's already dark and it's time time evening cleaning.
The same picture is visible in How Freud conducted time at home or in time vacation.
How They didn’t have ideals How they grew up How won and lost, How joked and How drank, How were friends and enemies.
Not like this time, How we were worried about time my ministry, it was possible to calmly study and then transform the police.
At this moment the clock stops and time begins to flicker: “Look around, time flickers How mouse".
After a while time returned the bread card, and, How were expressed in that time from the high stands, life became more fun.
People at that time accepted Jesus Christ How king, How greatest political figure How new hope, but they did not honor Him How God.
They're into it time visited grandma and that's it time played in a huge How It seemed to them that the house was playing hide and seek.
He understands: time speeches ends, comes time actions.
I, How Margulies from Time Forward, I can't trust such a simple mechanism How watch, such a precious thing, How time.
Therefore the current time he considers exclusively How time colossal opportunities.
Hussein, How politician, How ruler, How Muslim, How reformer and also How nationalist, was forced to heed their call.
In time services all time was near scarce foods, drinks, and cigarettes.
It's here again time raging crowd time streets, time speakers.
I remember, How in time records, during the break, we played popular ones time jazz melodies.
At the same time he hated it when he saw someone's despondency, and that's all time tried to cheer us up.
Yes, everything should be time: time build temples, time travel and time raise children and enjoy grandchildren.
He's everything time was turned inward and at the same time time unprotected How in the circus arena.
At that time I have lost many for a long time time considered friends, they stopped calling one by one and even though How- communicate.
I came to my brother's class, How to your home, anytime time, even in time lessons.
In time cruises in Scandinavia, the atmosphere on the Hohenzollern was much more pleasant than on time other voyages.
And in time flight, and time staying on foreign territory at such an alarming time time.
It all took away time, A time We only had it in the evening, after dark, and then we could only think about getting enough sleep.
Krishnamurti's childhood is described as How time maturation of the great meditative gift, then How time doubts.
He knew how to write and How Northerner, and How Block, and so, How wrote in that time for children, authors of expensive books with golden edges.
Time calls these people, they come, they form time, A time shapes them.
And I'm shy when everyone around me time ask: " How do you feel How health?" How, How!
True, I still will not cease to be surprised, How it always takes a long time time in time"contractions".
And again, How and in time service as a submarine officer on a nuclear missile carrier, I stopped noticing the official time, How life's burden.
Subsequently, I shot a lot and successfully from various types of weapons, How in time service in the Army, and in time numerous hunts.
Making money is also legal in time wars, How and in peace time.
In time during the meal we were entertained by the preachers, and during time The night watchmen woke me up from sleep.
In time wars, How and in peace time, an event that did not happen is often more important than many events that did happen.
Because here time such How once it comes, time.
Having specified that the highest point of the tide in the dark time day will be at 10 o'clock, he ordered to wake him up at this time and went to bed.
One day I remember How ran 400 meters in time finals of interschool races and How wow time walked shoulder to shoulder with another very fast guy.
In Spain at that time time the trains were running How in our time civil war, then goes, then stops, no one knows why.
How- once during non-working hours time I was walking down the street and met two former convicts, in different time who were in my squad.
We have everything time was between the people and the government How there would be some gap, that's all time manifested itself How some tension.
After all, it will take some time to set up and receive a lifting allowance. time and this time necessary How- to live?
But time flew quickly because I was everything time I was traveling and that's it time spoke.
I am sure that time but only time will judge everything and shed light on the relationship between the head of state and one of his closest associates.
From these latter to then time Medicine was considered the most profitable, How she is considered one even in our day time.
In peace time in time exercises, the boat takes a certain position, so How the enemy's actions are known in advance.
I remember How you said that sometimes you need me precisely when time self-calculation: the most boring thing for me time!
Her father hired her time worker, but soon announced to his daughter that she was already time work and so How She's an adult, so she has to do everything herself.
In everything time throughout my life I could never beg her to sit in my presence, and How soon I'll go into the room, she's all over time stood.
This time, while they were performing the free dance, remained in my memory How time constant fun.
Currently time almost no single part is made in the same way or from the same material, How then time.
At that time, How I now understand that it was indecent for a woman, and a party member at that, to conduct time around children.
It was pitch dark outside, but behind the front line everything time flashes of light were visible, How in time grand fireworks display.
Even a done role is all time polished, everything time How-is changing.
He prayed at the strictly prescribed time, took his place in time services in the mosque and listened attentively to the reciters of the Koran.
Her contribution to the work of Viktor Jansson was enormous and at the same time time nameless and invisible, How the labor of most women time.
Time from time to time I plunge into unconsciousness, in time I dream of war.
A contemporary wrote about the Janissaries: “They are just as dangerous in peacetime. time, How weak in time war."
Time persuasive speeches have passed, have come time real policies and programs, and politicians who can work together.
One time it seemed like we met every day, then I spent a long time time wrote to Lally in Scotland.

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§ 3100. The comparison, formalized by the conjunctions while, while, whereas, is based on emphasizing the differences between situations that are similar in one way or another. The listed conjunctions differ semantically, as well as in the possibilities of division; their comparative meaning is abstracted to varying degrees from the temporal meaning present in the semantics of the conjunctions themselves.

§ 3101. Sentences with the conjunction while can express the actual comparison (1) and comparison against the background of the meaning of simultaneity (2).

1) In the actual comparison, the dissimilarity in the semantics of the conjunction is emphasized: the combination at that time acts as an unaccentuated, grammaticalized part of the conjunction.

The living word is rich and generous. It has many shades, while the word term has only one single meaning and no shades (Marshak); Astrov is ironic and grins, while Voinitsky is indignant, rebels, and cries (V. Ermilov); The lieutenant colonel was undoubtedly a soldier, while the captain was undoubtedly a scout (Simon.); While in order to sterilize a wound we need to resort to iodine, potassium permanganate, boric acid, or at least boiled water, a wounded tree leaf surrounds itself with a sterile zone (Soloukh.).

In such constructions, the conjunction while acts as a synonym for the comparative conjunction if - then, correlative with the coordinating conjunction a (see § 3096).

When emphasizing the difference, the adversative or concessive connotation of meaning can be contextually reinforced.

It was surprising that we still had not reached the crossing point, while everything spoke of its proximity (M. Sib.); A gambling person only looks like a strong-willed person; he imagines himself to be the master of the situation, while he is only a toy in the hands of other people (A. Kron); The poet's lyrics grew primarily on the moral categories of goodness, love, and duty, interpreted in the abstract, while reality demanded from the poet an open and unwavering response to what she lived by (journal).

Such constructions are correlative with sentences formalized by the conjunction but or concessive: He imagines himself to be the master of the situation, but (although) he is only a toy in the hands of other people.

2) When compared in combination with simultaneity, the union while being dismembered; component at that time in its composition can be accentuated. Under these conditions, the comparative meaning of constructions is accompanied by information about simultaneity.

You are talking about theoretical assumptions, while I am talking to you about facts, about simple facts (Hertz.); While it is cloudy and damp on the seashore, in the mountains it is clear, dry and warm (V. Arsenyev); She was still a small and fragile girl, while Vova had already grown one hundred and seventy-five centimeters in height (V. Dragunsky); I stood dumbfounded on the bench, while everyone jumped up from their seats, pushed and shouted (Trif.).

For sentences with a conjunction while with actual temporary relations, see § 2989.

§ 3102. Sentences with the conjunction between (obsolete and poetic, meanwhile) express 1) a comparison in which the temporal contact of situations is not emphasized, or 2) a comparison that includes the moment of simultaneity.

1) He constantly moved, moved his shoulders..., blinked, coughed and moved his fingers, while his son was distinguished by a kind of careless immobility (Turg.); The hut seems to grow into the ground, while slender and proud pines shake their heads high above it (Korol.); After Pushkin and Lermontov, Nekrasov did not follow them, but created his own poetry, his own rhythms, his own harmonies, his own tone - while Alexei Tolstoy, and Maikov, and Polonsky created under the influence of Pushkin (Bunin).

2) While she was preparing everything needed for breakfast with tears, Bulba was giving out his orders (Gogol); While Levin was writing his, Kitty was thinking about how unnaturally attentive her husband was to the young Prince Charsky (L. Tolst.); Along the banks, green burdock, captured by the water, stretched out of it, anxiously waving its tops that had not yet sunk, while a few steps away at great depths both the burdock, and the mother-stepmother, and all the green brethren stood resignedly and quietly (Korol.); A flock of stitches scatters under a hand as pale as a moon, while, shaking the glass, Nordost bursts into anger (Bagr.); It seemed that he fell asleep to the sound of numbers, Meanwhile, above, in tart amber, the most tested clocks on the air are rearranged, checking in the heat (Pastern.).

Both types of comparison can be combined with a contextually revealed adversative or concessional meaning: Having met Gapka, Ivan Ivanovich began to scold why she was wandering around doing nothing, while she was dragging cereal into the kitchen (Gogol); “That’s enough,” I said to myself, while my feet, reluctantly stepping along the steep slope of the mountain, carried me down to the quiet river (Turg.).

Note. In the 19th century the union, meanwhile, was used in its actual temporary meaning: Gerasim remained motionless, crossing his powerful arms on Mumu’s back, while the boat was carried little by little by the wave back to the city (Turg.).

§ 3103. In sentences with a conjunction, then, comparison can be expressed in abstraction from the temporal meaning of simultaneity (1) or in combination with this meaning (2).

1) Moreover, she can read and write, while Marya Porfiryevna is completely illiterate (S.Sh.); A critic knows how to look and see the beautiful, while a petty critic sees only the bad and ignores the good (Stanisl.); The grandfather tries in every possible way to humiliate him, while all the other adults carefully elevate him (Gorky); The taiga landscape is oppressive, while in the forests near Moscow a person always feels like a master (Prishv.).

2) A book was open on the table in front of her, but her eyes, motionless and full of inexplicable sadness, seemed to be skimming the same page for the hundredth time, while her thoughts were far away (Lerm.); Merging with each other, the clouds covered the entire sky from behind, while in front it was still clear (Gorky).

For constructions with a conjunction, while the contamination of the proper comparative and comparative tense meaning with the concessive component is characteristic:

These articles... are called polemical, while there is not even a shadow of polemic in them (V. Belinsky); I am ashamed to remember with what a loud, piercing, even a little desperate voice I shouted again: “Coachman!”, while he was two steps away from me (L. Tolst.); He never praised me, rarely talked about my appearance, while I was always too busy with myself and cared a lot about my appearance (T. Kuzminskaya); The hunter could not stand it: he shot at the beast at sixty paces, when he should have let the beast go at ten fifteen paces (Bianchi).

Compared to the conjunctions while and meanwhile as in the conjunction while the actual comparative meaning is abstracted to the greatest extent from the meaning of the temporary. The use of this conjunction not as a comparative, but to denote simultaneity is noted in the language of writers of the 19th century: - Dear brother! - she said, gently pressing his head to her chest, while tears suddenly watered her face (Ven.).

§ 3104. As an equivalent to the comparative conjunctions while, while, while, the conjunction when can be used:

And we hate, and we love by chance, Without sacrificing anything, neither malice nor love, And some kind of secret cold reigns in the soul, When fire boils in the blood (Lerm.); It seemed strange to her that act after act she could sit completely motionless, when everything inside her was churned up by streams of movement and her eyes were stinging from the hot rush of blood (Fed.); [The people] are rich and wise, despite the obvious poverty of knowledge of its individual representatives. Therefore, he remains immortal when even his best sons die (Soloukh.).

In such sentences, as well as in other constructions with a comparative meaning, a concessive connotation can be contextually accentuated.

Do you really want to charge me for a whole year when I haven’t even lived with you for two weeks? - Oblomov interrupted him (Gonch.); I... am exhausted by daily visits with requests for help, when I myself barely have enough for black bread (Bunin); I was very interested in why the girls had to sew on live thread, when in other cases they were blamed for such sewing (Lesk.).

In the presence of a concessional meaning, conditions are created for the non-distinction of conjunctions when, if, although and once. This neutralization of their meanings is especially typical for sentences that take the form of a question, often rhetorical: Why don’t you go after the brunette when you liked her so much? (Gogol); Who, in fact, would seriously think of making a date at night, far outside the city, in a cemetery, when it can easily be arranged on the street in a city garden? (Czech.).