2006年12月9日 · To spend time doing something means you use the time available to you for something. I spent a lot of time (at the station) seeing you. -- It means you were there and was seeing her in the meantime. I spent a lot of time (at the station) to see you (=reason clause). -- The reason why I was there was to meet you when you arrived at the station.

You can spend time on something, you can also spend time doing something. "Spend time on" is an idiomatic way of referring to the usage of time. "Doing" is just one of many verbs that you could use instead. The most natural way to phrase the question would be: Besides being with your family, what else do you spend time on? There is no need to ...

2015年4月19日 · Similarly, with time: you need time to understand the contents of the course, and with an on-line course you can take as much as you need; in a classroom-based course your time is limited, sometimes you can spend it on understanding, and sometimes on, let say, copying homework from someone else (not that I would encourage such practice).

2016年5月20日 · If you don't use a preposition (e.g. 'on') - i.e. if you say 'I spend time [ing verb]' - what you are saying is that you are 'spending time by [ing verb]'. For example, if I 'spend time reading books', I 'spend time by reading books'. If, however, you do use a preposition and say, 'I spend time on [ing verb]', you are 'using time' to [bare ...

2020年11月8日 · To spend time means to do something during that time. One can spend time with family, taking a walk, working, idling. To spare time means that something that came up that could use up some of your time. If you spare it some time, you then spend some time on it. The sparing is generally when it's scheduled -- even if it's immediate.

With "spend," I normally follow these patterns: spend something + on + Noun spend something + V+ing So, I would correct all your sentences this way: We've spent X hours on the training of the new employee. We've spent X hours training the new employee. I wouldn't use "for."

2024年2月11日 · Spend is how you pay out money, effort, time. So you can spend the day, spend a morning, spend a long time. But a good time is not a period of time to pay out, it's a judgment of what that time felt like to have, to show someone, to miss .

2019年10月20日 · The verb "spend", meaning to use time, is a transitive verb i.e. it needs an object to make sense. You can say we spend an evening, not an evening spend/spends. However, you can say an evening is spent (by us) that's in the passive. So you can say an evening that is spent with friends or an evening spent with friends.

2024年5月21日 · You spend money buying things for a shop if you already own the shop, and you're buying stock that you intend to sell in it. But that could be expressed as spend money on [buying] things for the shop , so you can see that for doesn't directly refer to the relationship between spending money and the thing bought - it refers to the relationship ...

Davos is right in his two uses for money but you can spend time or money in the performance of an action as well. To spend time or money on the performance of an action is minutely different. It denotes the time/money was spent for the action but not necessarily in the act itself and leaves open the option that you had another perform the ...