word usage - How to use "Spend"? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
People who spend their prison sentence being reformed and getting educated should be able to get top level jobs straight out of jail.
Top level.....tough sell
Mid level.... absolutely if they filled some role in prison that allowed them to use their new found skills and education.
Entry...yes, and no stigmatized status is the goal
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It should be spend, present tense
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So, did they kind of "prey on you" like try to beat you up because you we're a new guy or did they stay away for the most part? I imagine it would be kind of hard to not run into trouble makers seeing as you're surrounded by them. Also, did you make any lifelong friends?
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According to both the Oxford Learner's Dictionary and the Cambridge Dictionary, when you talk about spending time, if you use a present participle (-ing), you don't normally use the on preposition. Here are two examples from the Oxford Learner's Dictionary: the first uses a present participle, and the second one does not.
spend something on something: How long did you spend on your homework?
spend something doing something: I spend too much time watching television.
The correct version of your sentence is therefore:
My daughter spends two hours studying mathematics every day.
Or alternatively, you could say
My daughter spends two hours on mathematics every day.
In the structure X spend(s) Y Z, where Y is a duration; Z can be an action or a thing. If it's a thing, a preposition is needed.
I spent 2 hours washing my clothes.
I spent 2 hours at the laundromat.
Actions can be considered things if expressed as a gerund or gerund phrase. A context where you'd want to "thing-ify" an action is if you're concerned with a sequence of tasks and how long they took/fit into a timeline or higher-level duration.
I spent 2 hours on washing my clothes. Then I spent 1 hour on washing my mom's clothes. Then I spent 2 hours on drying them.
My daughter spends two hours on studying mathematics every day.
You're saying that your daughter dedicates to hours to studying mathematics. She has a two-hour timeslot where she does nothing but study math.
It takes my daughter two hours to study mathematics every day.
This means your daughter is trying to complete the task "study mathematics" and it ends up taking two hours, but it is not planned to take two hours.