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aggy78
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 Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: Spend time on |
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This was one of the final exam questions at our school and I just wanted to know if this sentence was grammatically correct:
"I don't spend enough time ON STUDYING."-
The answer should be, "I don't spend enough time STUDYING."
I didn't know whether to mark ON STUDYING as correct. I don't think it's grammatically incorrect, but it just doesn't sound right. I can't explain it. Can anyone out there help me with this? |
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dragn
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This was one of the final exam questions at our school and I just wanted to know if this sentence was grammatically correct:
"I don't spend enough time ON STUDYING."-
The answer should be, "I don't spend enough time STUDYING."
I didn't know whether to mark ON STUDYING as correct. I don't think it's grammatically incorrect, but it just doesn't sound right. I can't explain it. Can anyone out there help me with this? |
I can't say with black-and-white finality that "to spend time on doing st" is grammatically incorrect, but I can say that it is not frequently used. It is far more common to hear people say that you spend time on st, where st is a noun that is not a gerund (-ing form).
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aggy78
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| Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you. That was a big help~ |
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