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Anonymous  +  248778 Tue, 25 Jul 06 04:18 PM

Dear Teachers,

1. How often do you do exercise / take exercise / exercise?

2. How often do you travel abroad / travel overseas?

3. How often do you travel in the country?

4. How often do you go to the doctor / see a doctor?

5. How often do you go to the dentist / see a dentist?

Thanks a lot to Teachers,

 Stevenukd.

Goodman  +  248843 Tue, 25 Jul 06 08:41 PM
 Anonymous wrote:

Dear Teachers,

1. How often do you do exercise ? Ok

2. How often do you travel abroad / travel overseas? Either one is fine

3. How often do you travel in the country? Shaded worded are not needed

4. How often do you go to the doctor / see a doctor? Both are ok

5. How often do you go to the dentist / see a dentist?  Both are ok

Thanks a lot to Teachers,

 Stevenukd.

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Clive  +  248874 Tue, 25 Jul 06 09:45 PM

Hi guys,

1. How often do you do exercise / take exercise / exercise?

A is OK, as noted earlier. B is a bit formal and rather old-fashioned. C is very commonly said.

Best wishes, Clive

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Teo, 1 yr 160 days ago

How often do you get exercise?

Is the above sentence acceptable?

Clive  +  561577 Tue, 02 Sep 08 03:51 PM
Hi,
Yes.
Clive
sitifan  +  627442 Wed, 31 Dec 08 07:40 AM

If you don't do or don't take much exercise, it means that you don't actually perform an activity such as running,walking,playing tennis or whatever.

Get exercise is quite different. This means receive some kind of exercise as a result of an activity. Sitting at a desk you would obviously not receive or benefit from any exercise at all.

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Clive  +  637603 Sat, 10 Jan 09 02:32 PM
Hi,
Much depends on the context but, generally speaking, 'I don't get a lot of exercise' suggests to me that the speaker wants to exercise but is unable to, perhaps because of a lack of opportunity or even a lack of will-power.

Best wishes, Clive
Yankee  +  637616 Sat, 10 Jan 09 02:57 PM
My fingers are the only parts of my body that get much exercise when I'm answering questions in ESL forums.  And yesterday, what with all the spam that was coming in, my "delete finger" got tons of exercise. Big Smile

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Anonymous, 1 yr 29 days ago
1.  We do not do exercise.  The British take exercise in the older days, but now we just exercise. 

2.  Either is good.

3.  Do you mean travel to the country, meaning away from the city into the farmland or the forest?  That would be to the country.  If you travel in the country, it just means you go somewhere else within the country.

4. and 5. both are correct, we use them either way.

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