一、take表示“花費”時常指花費時間，可用以下五種句型結構：

1．It take sb some

time to do sth，如：

It took him an hour and a half to write the letter．

It takes him half an hour to eat his meal．

2．把不定式的邏輯主語放在不定式之前，再在其前加 for。即：

It take some time for sb to do sth，如：

It took an hour for him to repair his bike．

3．用sb做主語。即：

sb take some time to do sth，

He took ten minutes to put on his clothes．

4．用 sth做主語。即：

sth takes sb some time to do，如：

The newspaper took him two hours to read．

5．用動名詞做主語。即：

Doing sth takes sb some time，如：

Swimming across the river took him ten minutes．

二、take表示花費時也可指花費金錢，表示“某人花費多少錢做某事其句型結構與時間相同，有五種。

1．It take sb some

money to do sth，如：

It took him a lot of money to buy a house as big as that．

2．It take some

money for sb to do sth，如：

It took￡ 12 for me to buy that coat．

我花了12鎊買了那件大衣。

3．sb take some

money to do sth，如：

I took ￡ 12 to buy that coat．

4．sth take sb some

money to do，如：

That coat took me ￡ 12 to buy．

5．doing

sth take sb some money，如：

Buying that coat took me ￡ 12．

三、take除了花費時間、金錢外，還可指其他花費。如：

It takes more than a long walk to become a hero．

要成為英雄，不單單走很長路就夠了。

It takes two to make a quarrel．

兩個人才吵得起來。