Entertaining guests

In Lesson 12 (Use and Structure 12.11) we learned to indicate the duration of an action by following the verb with the duration expression:

verb + duration 㸳 shuì 㑬➬⷗ zho¯ngtóu ᱄(㸳㯐㑬➬⷗䐴㵘᱄) I slept for eight hours.