DD2's friend 'Fred' is relocating, so her class were bidding him farewell today. I asked DD2 what her teacher said.
DD2: "Well Mrs X had a special ball called a talking ball and when you were holding the ball you could talk."
Me: "What did you say?"
DD2: "I said 'we all wish 'Fred' a Merry Christmas.'"
Me: "Ahhh that's nice. What did your friends say?"
DD2: Errr...nothing!...because they.weren't.holding.the.ball."
So, silly mummy had to rephrase to 'When you friends were holding the ball, what did they say?'