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the largest proportion of consumer spending went on food

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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 06:49 pm
In the sentence" The largest proportion of consumer spending went on food"
I don't understand why the writer used "went on"
Can you help me ?Also, could you give me some more examples of how to use go on in a similar way?

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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 07:24 pm
@Adverb,
Adverb wrote:

In the sentence" The largest proportion of consumer spending went on food"
I don't understand why the writer used "went on"
Can you help me ?Also, could you give me some more examples of how to use go on in a similar way?

Regards


"went on" in this case means "was spent on"

You also could use "went for" there.
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