Hi there,

 

Would it be correct / natural to say: "Watching TV takes a lot of time away from my / me studying"? Or would it be better to say "... takes a lot of my studying time away" or "... eats up a lot of my study time"? My student wanted to convey this idea but I couldn �t give a solid way of expressing this idea. Thanks in advance.   

I would say one of the following:

- Watching TV eats into my study time. (This makes it sound like they are equally important and you don �t have enough time to do both.)

- Watching TV distracts me from studying.

- I don �t have enough time to study because I waste too much time watching TV.

Pedro,

Of your suggestions, I would choose any of these:

 

 

 

 

They are all good ways of expressing the idea. FrauSue �s suggestions are good, too, although her "eats into" suggestion implies that you are losing only a small part of your study time.

 

Bruce