Scott,

You ask:
Doesn't <where I was born> specify the place of my birth?  Isn't it adjectival?
Doesn't <when I was born> specify the time of my birth? Isn't is also
adjectival?

I agree that they are adjectival, but they don't really tell where or
when you were born.

A fun concept to explore with high school students is the use of "when
I was born" as a noun, or an adjective, or an adverb:

I don't really know when I was born.
On the day when I was born, there was a solar eclipse.
When I was born, dinosaurs roamed the earth.


-- 
Don Stewart
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