Daily life
do your own thing
choose your own activities
If you do your own thing, you choose your own activities or way of doing things.
Hear it in real life
Are you all staying together at the party?
Not necessarily; we can do our own thing.
Once we arrived at the market, everyone did their own thing.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We did our own things.
Say: We did our own thing.
In this expression, “thing” normally stays singular after “own.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
do your own thing; did our own thing
Your turn: say it out loud
Once we arrived at the market, everyone did their own thing.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
do your own thing
choose your own activities
“Once we arrived at the market, everyone did their own thing.”
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