Timeline for Does this sentence "How long does it take you to watch TV" make any sense?
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| May 6, 2018 at 22:35 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 3:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/765387192055296000 | ||
| Aug 16, 2016 at 0:48 | history | edited | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2016 at 0:41 | history | edited | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | JavaLatte | A valid question in this form would be "how long does it take you to get bored with watching television?". | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 18:00 | comment | added | apsillers | To be clear, when you wrote "How long does it you to cook dinner?" (apparently from a textbook), did you actually mean to type "How long does it take you to cook dinner?" Without the "take" the sentence isn't structurally valid (and all your other sentences include "take" correctly). | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 15:13 | answer | added | apsillers | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:52 | comment | added | TimR | How much time do you spend watching TV each day, on average? How long does it take you to tie your shoelaces? | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:47 | comment | added | TimR | No, Tom, it cannot mean that. You are thinking of the not quite idiomatic "How long do you take watching TV?" In your question you use so-called "dummy it": "How long does it take you to watch TV?" That question, with "it", means "How much time is required for you to complete the task?" | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | Tom | @TRomano, but it uses simple present tense & thus it could mean "the average amount of time you spend on TV ", similar to "how many hours do you sleep a day"-->someday you sleep longer & some day shorter but it means an average sleeping period. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:13 | comment | added | TimR | Dinner is, at some point, cooked and ready to eat. The time required may vary, but it is not an activity that can go on indefinitely. You are not asking a question about English. You are asking a question about the difference between watching TV and cooking dinner, and if you cannot understand that difference, you might as well sit in front of the TV. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:12 | comment | added | dockeryZ | It makes absolutely no sense. This would be semantically similar to asking someone "How long does it take you to breathe?", "How long does it take you to wear underwear?" | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:10 | comment | added | Tom | @TRomano, but in textboox, it says "How long does it you to cook dinner?" | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:09 | history | edited | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:08 | comment | added | TimR | No, it makes no sense, for the reason I gave. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:08 | comment | added | Tom | Does this sentence “How long does it take you to watch TV” make any sense? Or do native say it? This is what I want to know? | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 14:06 | comment | added | TimR | It is not clear what you want to know, Tom. Do you want to know how long someone watches TV? "How long does it take" refers to something with a finite duration. Watching TV is an activity of variable duration. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 13:58 | history | asked | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |