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Christine Christie Posted 7 years ago
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Does this sentence make sense:


"It's common for teenagers to wish to have behaviours which are PROPER of adults, such as smoking, drinking, etc."


Note: By 'proper', I mean that usually only adults have.

  

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"Proper of" does not work. "

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"Proper of" does not work. There are several ways to phrase it if you must use "proper", for example:

"It's common for teenagers to wish to have behaviours which are proper to adults, such as smoking, drinking, etc."

"It's common for teenagers to wish to have behaviours which are properly adult, such as smoking, drinking, etc."

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