I emptied my mind of all thoughts of home.

[diamondcutter]

1. I emptied my mind of all thoughts of home.
2. I emptied all thoughts of home from my mind.

I made the two sentences to mean the same thing. Are they both correct?

 

[Rover_KE]

I wrote the two sentences to mean the same thing. Are they both correct?

Yes.

 

[Tdol]

They are, but I prefer the first for some reason.

 

[Tarheel]

@diamondcutter Granted, those sentences are in the past tense, but if you say you are not thinking about something what are you doing?

 

[diamondcutter]

I’m thinking about nothing.

 

[Tarheel]

@diamondcutter If I say I am not thinking about home then I am thinking about home. (How could it be otherwise?) What if I said I'm not thinking about elephants? You might say, "But you just said the word " elephants". You have to be thinking about elephants. There's no way you couldn't be."

Some statements are like that. They are by their very nature untrue.