when my generation was growing up

navi tasan · Jan 29, 2014

Can one use:
1-My generation growing up, the world was not in the state it is now.
instead of:
2-When my generation was growing up, the world was not in the state it is now.

Gratefully,
Navi.

5jj · Jan 29, 2014

No. It dosn't work. It suggests that the state of the world was somehow because of the growing up of that generation.

vaibhavmaskar · Feb 1, 2014

5jj said:
No. It dosn't work. It suggests that the state of the world was somehow because of the growing up of that generation.

"Growing up" is a present participal here. am I right ?

MikeNewYork · Feb 2, 2014

vaibhavmaskar said:
"Growing up" is a present participal here. am I right ?

"Growing" is a present participle. In the second sentence is part of a past progressive verb. "Up" is an adverb.

vaibhavmaskar · Feb 2, 2014

"My generation growing up"

Is it a noun phrase? and Participle "growing" modifiy noun "generation"?

MikeNewYork · Feb 2, 2014

vaibhavmaskar said:
"My generation growing up"

Is it a noun phrase? and Participle "growing" modifiy noun "generation"?

That is the part of the sentence that doesn't work.

when my generation was growing up

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