View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 03-Aug-2007, 00:59
Barb_D's Avatar
Barb_D Barb_D is offline
Key Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Country: USA
Posts: 1,802
Current Location: Pennsylvania, USA
First Language: English (American)
Member Type: Other
Thanks: 6
Thanked 381 Times in 333 Posts
Barb_D is just really niceBarb_D is just really niceBarb_D is just really niceBarb_D is just really nice
Default Re: get through sth (sentences)

To mean "consume a lot of something," you "go" through, not "get" through. The past is "went through."

They went through a lot of beer at the party.
The kids are going through that box of candy pretty quickly.
His Buick goes through a lot of gas.

[a writer, not a teacher]
Reply With Quote