bring up: ✓ bring up ✗ grow up

By | March 6, 2017
bring up
grow (up)
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
A mio parere, l’amore è più appropriato della paura, la dolcezza meglio delle bastonate, per crescere un figlio nel modo giusto nell’apprendimento.
– Roger Ascham (c. 1515-1568)
✓ He was brought up by his aunt.
✗ He was *grown (up)* by his aunt.
E’ stato cresciuto da sua zia.
When parents (or other adults) bring up children, they look after them until they are adults.
Parents don’t *grow children* or *grow up children*!
Children grow (up).
Some examples:
✓ After their parents died, their grandparents brought them up.
Dopo la morte dei loro genitori, i loro nonni li hanno cresciuti.
✓ Tarzan was brought up by apes.
✗ Tarzan was *grown up* by apes.
Tarzan è stato cresciuto dalle scimmie.
✓ Tarzan grew up in the jungle.
Tarzan è cresciuto nella giungla.

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