All Spend structures: Spend Time, Spend Money, Spend + to V or + V-ing

Not only is it used a lot in tests and exams, especially in the form of sentence rewriting or verb conjugation exercises, but it is also quite popular in everyday communication.

1. Spend

There are 2 uses of the Spend structure:

• Used to indicate how much time and money to spend on something

• Used to indicate how much time is spent for specific purposes and tasks

For example, spend time (spend time), spend money (spend money). And after Spend is always a gerund (noun) noun (phrase).

Based on this information, we can answer the question Spend + to V or Spend + V-ing, the correct answer is Spend + V-ing!

2. Structures used with Spend

- S + spend/ spends/ spent + V-ing (How much time/money to spend on what)

For example:

• I’ve spent years building up my collection.
• I spend an hour at the station waiting for the train every day.

- Spend something on something

For example:

• She spends a lot of money on clothes.
• How long do you spend on your homework?

- Spend itself = stop

For example:

• Fortunately, the tsunami finally spent itself.

- spend something doing something (Use time for something)

For example:

• I spent my youth loving him.

- spend something in doing something (Use time for a specific activity or goal)

For example:

• Most of my time at work was spent in taking care for customers.

- Spend something with/at/in + O (Use  something with/somewhere)

For example:

• We will spend the day at the beach.

The above article has fully provided the entire Spend structure, usage, and specific examples. Hopefully these grammar sections will help you in studying for exams, doing English grammar exercises as well as in daily communication. Wishing you success in conquering English soon!