cubezero3
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Dickie left the shop without a word and returned carrying a large coth bag.
When Dickie was given the watch, he presented the assistant with the cloth bag.
The idea became clear when I happened to see the sentences quoted above. And and when can both be used to describe past events in sequence. It occurs to me that and, when used, can indicates a fairly wide gap in time, but at the same time, when is strictly employed in situations where two past events happened one right after another. For example, it seems when we tell others We had lunch and played basketball, the listeners don't necessarily know whether we had enough to digest, or spent our time on something else, before we played basketball. However, if we say When we had lunch, we played basketball, it implies we had a ball game session shortly, if not immediately, after our lunch.
Am I right in thinking so?
Thanks
Richard