question about the use of 'generation'

• Besides, this is also the largest difference between our generation and the last generation.
  
• This is the most important task for my generation to accomplish. Or, This is the most important task of our generation.
  
• He and I are in the same generation. Or, He and I belong

Thank you davkett, I'd like to know which would be the better expression, the ones I wrote or the alternate ones you wrote?

I'm going to vote for mine. Yay.

Also, Jaiunreve,

You asked for corrections in your question.

'Please help me correcting the sentences below, thanks in advance' --should be written: Please help me correct the sentences below. Thanks, in advance.

And,

'I don't know how many errors included, thanks again for helping me' --should be written: I

Hello J

I'm sorry for being too late to post.

I think the sentences of yours and Davket's are quite correct grammatically. However, it would be better to know there are another expressions about #3 and #4.

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  3-A. He and I are of the same generation.
  


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  3-B. He and I are the same g

You are never too late, Paco, and always welcome in any discussion.

I must say that I don't recognize the B form of your expressions. 'Generation' refers to a body or group of individuals, so to say, 'He is my generation' is to say, 'He is my group'. There might also be the problem of the other definition of 'generation' --'offspring.' 'He is my offspring'.

Also, I don't beli

Hello Davket

Yes, "people our generation" sounds a bit wordy to me too. But it is actually used by [url=http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:9zfgukmcCFwJ:mustudent.muohio.edu/oped.php%3Fd%3D011405+%22people+our+generation%22&hl=ja&start=16] some people[/url]. Do you think it i

As folks like to do around here, Paco, I googled the phrase, 'people our generation'. Of course, I found your reference among the 330 listed, most of which were not the unbroken, unpunctuated phrase. Must be idiolectic. Such usage sure doesn't make much sense to me.

As for the definition of "generation", I understand it is used as a word someway similar to "age": :first generation, second generation. And I often come across a phrase like "They are my generation", though I am now coming to doubt whether it is a good expression.

paco