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Is the sentence okay?

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oristarA
 
Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2010 10:50 pm

I want to be a teacher when grown up.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 17 Sep, 2010 12:13 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
I want to be a teacher when grown up.
Its a little off.
Better: I want to be a teacher when I am grown up.
I want to be a teacher when I have grown up.
I want to be a teacher when I have reached adulthood.
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contrex
 
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Reply Fri 17 Sep, 2010 12:18 am
More usual in British English, and I suspect, other variants :

I want to be a {job title} when I grow up.
Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 17 Sep, 2010 02:17 am
@contrex,
That's how Americans would commonly say it, too.
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oristarA
 
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Reply Fri 17 Sep, 2010 03:40 am
Thank you all.
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