[詞彙區別] cost, spend, take, pay 的用法
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1. cost 的本意為「價值」,故僅限用於「主詞」為「物」時,當然也僅限用於「金錢」上。( 過去式為 cost,過去分詞也是 cost )
句型用法:
物品 + cost(s) + 人 + $.
The LV bag cost me NT$80,000.
It + cost(s) + 人 + $ + to + 原形動詞.
It cost him NT$80,000 to buy the LV bag 🙁
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2. spend 用於花費「時間、金錢」,主詞只能是「人」,其後若有第二個動詞,則只能用「動名詞」形式。( 過去式為 spent,過去分詞也是 spent )
句型用法:
人 + spend + 時間/ $ + V-ing.
I spent 10 minutes waiting for the bus.
I spent NT$15 taking the bus.
人 + spend + $ + on + 物品.
He spent $100 on the LB (Lu Beintan 路邊攤) bag.
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3. take 用於花費「時間」( 過去式為 took,過去分詞是 taken )
句型用法:
It + takes/took + 人 + 時間 + to + 原形動詞.
It took Eric 10 hours to grade all the assignments.
V-ing (動名詞當主詞) + takes/took + 人 + 時間.
Writing this Chinese sentence took Eric 20 minutes.
4. pay 的本意為「付錢」,故只能用於「金錢」上,當然「主詞」也只能是「人」。( 過去式為 paid,過去分詞也是 paid )
句型用法:
人 + pay + $ + for + 物品. ->(人)付 $ 買(物)
I paid a lot of money for that iPhone99S.
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Sources:
http://210.240.55.2/~t311/moe/engb5/b5grammar/b5cost_take.htm
http://write.scu.edu.tw/file/pei/3-8.pdf
http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/4147495.html
請問有 [ spend $ for 物 ]及 [ 人 take 時間 Ving?]的文法句型嗎?
謝謝您
Spend money for something
https://www.google.com.tw/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22spend%20money%20for*%22&*
A google search doesn’t always yield the most proper and grammatically accurate sentences though, so I suggest you use COCA:
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
You can also search for the other sentence pattern in COCA.