Timeline for Usage "when he grows up"
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| Jan 24, 2020 at 21:25 | comment | added | Zan700 | @RegDwight You're right. Is there then no problem with the original sentence? If the verb is changed, does the construction still pose no problem: "Don feared (of) becoming a doctor one day, when he grows up." | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 12:58 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | In your phrase, "when he grows up" is a subordinate of dreamed, not of one day. That does not make a problem with the original apparent, it specifically creates a problem that the original did not have. | |
| Dec 29, 2018 at 5:04 | history | answered | Zan700 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |