Shortly before I resumed work during my hospitalisation leave in February 2016, I tripped and fell down on the road at a car park

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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“Shortly before I resumed work during my hospitalisation leave in February 2016, I tripped and fell down on the road at a car park.”

Is the sentence clear and correct?

Thanks.

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It’s perfectly clear to me.

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Thanks, Torsten!

Could you paraphrase the sentence? I don’t understand exactly what it means.

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Which part do you not understand? If you don’t understand it at all you can simply translate it into your native language using Google Translate.

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Thanks, Torsten.

The part is “Shortly before I resumed work…2016”.

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“Shortly before I resumed work” means that it happened a short time before he had started working again.

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Thanks, Torsten.

The other part is “during my hospitalisation leave”. Does it mean he was working for some time during his hospitalisation leave?

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That’s what it says. He started working while and although he officially was still on hospitalization leave.

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