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What's the difference between " I did some shopping." and " I did some shopping."? There are sentences like " do some shopping " do some reading" " do some reading" or do some hiking" In all sentences, if I say without " some", does it sound not right? This is a very simple question, but can someone please explain to me? Thank you.
28 de fev de 2013 03:21
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I think I understand your question. In the cases you list, you can't remove the "some" and still have those phrases be correct. I'll give you an example: A) I did some shopping today! B) I did shopping today! In that case, A is correct, and B is not. You would have to rephrase B, and say something like "I went shopping today!". However, with a few verbs, you could take out the "some." There are not many cases when you could. Another example: A) I did some laundry today. B) I did laundry today. A & B are both correct in that example. This is an exception though!
28 de fevereiro de 2013
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I did some shopping. I did the shopping. I did a lot of shopping. After "do" you require some kind of article. You can use the zero article in the following: My new robot is good. It does shopping, it does ironing, it can do cleaning, etc.
28 de fevereiro de 2013
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If you take out "some" in those sentences, it sounds wrong. You can say "I will go shopping." or "I'm going to go shopping." or "I'm going to shop." As for the other sentences, "I'm going to read" or "I will read." "I'm going to hike." or "I'm going to go hiking." or "I'll go hiking." Those are just some other ways to correctly say the example sentences you provided.
28 de fevereiro de 2013
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