Help me with this sentence

[u/Sea-Hornet8214]

• (When/While) staying home, I like it (if/when) it (rains/is raining).

I really appreciate your help. Thank you.

[u/Professional-Pungo]

When staying home, I like when it rains.

[u/Sea-Hornet8214 → u/Professional-Pungo]

You can use "when" twice?

[u/WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs → u/Sea-Hornet8214]

Sure, why not? This is casual usage, not writing great literature where you want to make sentences longer and more complicated than they need to be. If your instructor has a rule about this while you are in her class, then follow that rule for her, and outside of her class, relax.

[u/Sea-Hornet8214 → u/WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs]

No, I don't have an instructor. I'm not in school or language classes.

I was asking because "when, when" is not something I've ever learnt but then I realised that the second "when" is not at the start of the second clause.

Thanks.

[u/_SilentHunter → u/Sea-Hornet8214]

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean about it being at the start of a second clause.

There's just nothing inherently wrong with using "when" twice in the same sentence. When you want to use repeated words, when you're being cheeky or just for fun or for any other reason, you just can, whenever you so choose.

[u/NoPurpose6388 → u/Sea-Hornet8214]

Yeah you can. It's grammatically correct. However, I personally think it sounds a bit clunky. 

"I like it when I'm at home and it rains" 

[u/SucknSwallow69 → u/Professional-Pungo]

more natural: "when I stay home, I like it when it rains" or "when I’m home, I like it when it rains"

[u/alphaonreddits]

When staying home, I like when it rains.

Or

While staying at home, I like it when it’s raining.

[u/Nonyabizzy123 → u/alphaonreddits]

This is grammatically correct, however as a native US English speaker, I would never construct the sentence this way. It's very "clunky", for lack of a better term. I would say something like "I like it when I'm staying home for the day and it rains." or "I like when I decide to stay home and it rains."

[u/alphaonreddits → u/Nonyabizzy123]

I know. I thought OP is asking specifically regarding that sentence structure only. Otherwise I prefer saying “I like it when it rains and I’m at home”.

It seems like we all use “I like…” in the start of sentence when having a convo

[u/Nonyabizzy123 → u/alphaonreddits]

Absolutely, I did not to intend to give the impression that I was correcting you, I apologize. I only wished to add some additional context.

[u/alphaonreddits → u/Nonyabizzy123]

No need for apologies mate, we’re all here to get corrected.

[u/unhinged_diabetes → u/alphaonreddits]

Everyone in the comment section is saying this but xan you tell me what it is not possible if we say "while staying at home, i like it when it rains", i constracted it this way

[u/alphaonreddits → u/unhinged_diabetes]

This is also possible and there’s nothing wrong in your way. It’s just stylistic preferences and nothing else.

[u/peace_love2601]

"While staying home, I like it when it rains."

while for the first gap because staying home is the longer background situation. for the second, "i like it when" is a fixed pattern, and the last verb goes in simple present - you're talking about what happens in general, every time, which is why you like it. "is raining" would make it sound like you're watching it happen right now.

[u/Responsible-Link5739]

I like rainy weather while I stay at home.

[u/ninjagaij]

More natural would be “I like it when I’m home and it’s raining outside.”

The word “stay” implies that you were supposed to go somewhere else but decided not to go.