when my generation was growing up

[navi tasan]

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]

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

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

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]

"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]

"My generation growing up"

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

 

[MikeNewYork]

"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.