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Wowenglish Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Take

I would like to know the meaning of "took" in the next sentence.

What took you so long to get here?
  

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to take = to require an amount of time It took me three hours to walk to the village. We usually take about 10 minutes at the beginning of class to answer questions about homework. It took me nearly forever to understand what he was talking about.

— Philip

  • to take = to require an amount of time It took me three hours to walk to the village.
  • We usually take about 10 minutes at the beginning of class to answer questions about homework.
  • It took me nearly forever to understand what he was talking about.
  • It can mean 'require' in other situations as well: It takes a village to raise a child.
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to take Emotion: time = to require an amount of time

It took me three hours to walk to the village.

We usually take about 10
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