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Old 09-Jan-2003, 01:19
gwendolinest
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Default Re: Change into Past Tense.

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Originally Posted by Red5
In your conversion to future tense, I saw only one mistake other that the spelling that Gwen pointed out.

The quoted line should be:

They will go to a toy shop to spend their Eidi.

:wink:


I didn’t see that!

However, ProudToBeMuslim’s original sentence “They will go to a toy shop for spending their Eidi.” is grammatically sound. It’s just that in most cases, we would say “to spend” instead of “for spending”.

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