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sabrinak
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 Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: on or in? |
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Hello,
"He spent a great deal of time on /in preparing the sales report."
Here I want to know which preposition is better or correct at least in formal situations.
Could you explain this? Thank you all the time. |
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Kenji Noda
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject: spend on |
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I have found out a sentence used ' spend on' in the word bank database.
<UK Written>
Plan to spend it in 6 months time on something special. |
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sabrinak
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: Does this mean on is appropriate here? |
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I'm still confused.
So is it okay to use on / in as in the following?
-spend some money in something expensive
-spend some time on something fun
Thanks a million. |
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Lorikeet
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: on or in? |
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| sabrinak wrote: |
Hello,
"He spent a great deal of time on /in preparing the sales report."
Here I want to know which preposition is better or correct at least in formal situations.
Could you explain this? Thank you all the time. |
I would use, "He spent a great deal of time preparing the sales report." without either preposition.
He spent some money on something expensive. (I can't use "in".)
What do you want to spend your money on?
Let's spend some time on this question. |
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