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Onelook Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Sometimes/sometime

They clean the house and sometimes feed the children.

They clean the house and sometime feed the children.


What's the difference between the two? Which sentence is grammatical?

  

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Here you need the first one. They clean the house and sometimes feed the children. "Sometimes" means occasionally.

  • Here you need the first one.
  • They clean the house and sometimes feed the children.
  • "Sometimes" means occasionally.
  • "Some time" means a period of time.
  • They talked about globalisation for some time.
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Here you need the first one.

They clean the house and sometimes feed the children.

"Sometimes" means occasionally.

"Some time" means a period of time.

They talked about globalisation for some time.

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onelookThey clean the house and sometimes feed the children.

Only this one is correct.

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onelookThey clean the house and sometimes feed the children.

Sometimes = occasionally.

onelookThey clean the house and sometime feed the children.

Incorrect usage.

Come up and see me sometime.

Sometime = at some indefinite time in the future.

Feed the children dinner sometime after 5 pm. 

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