spend..doing/do....doing

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Your spend too much time watching TV and do too much time surfing the Internet, too.


:?:Is it a good sentence? Please.
 
No. Stick to 'spend'.
 
As an NES but not a teacher, "do" doesn't work for me, "your" should read "you're", "spend" should read "spending" - and there's "too much" repetition!

If I were to treat "Your" as "You" then "spend" would be OK.

I would have personally said "You're spending too much time watching TV and surfing the internet too".

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We don't "do" surfing the net. We just "surf the net".
 
sorry, I mean ' You spend too much time watching TV and spend (do) too much time surfing the Internet,too.'

So, it's bad to use 'do", right?
 
Yes — it's bad.:-(
 
As an NES but not a teacher, ......
I would have personally said "You're spending too much time watching TV and surfing the internet too".

On a second look, maybe I should have said " .... both watching TV and ..." to clarify that you were spending too much time on both.

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R21
 
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