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I just read a sentence in an answer key as follows:

> 雨が降ったら、買い物をしたり、おいしい物を食べるつもりです。

I would have thought that the sentence should be:

> 雨が降ったら、買い物をしたり、おいしい物を食べたりするつもりです。

Is there any difference between the two? Is it alway ok to not finish off with
たりする? Although it changes the meaning of the sentence, would it also have been
ok to finish off with just 食べます?
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たり sentence without the final たり
It's not grammatically correct, but happens often in daily speech. It wouldn't
be any more or less correct if you dropped つもり from the end, but as you say
the meaning would change, becoming less clear if you're talking about when/if
it rains.
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If you are around friends... I have the feeling they wouldn't mind if you left
off the bookish-sounding grammatically correct ending of 〜たりする (something like
your second example sentence.)

However, your first sentence's meaning almost sounds like this (to me):

```

    雨が降ったら、買い物をしたり、おいしい物を食べるつもりです。
    If it rains, I plan on going shopping and eating good things.
    
```

The second sentence's meaning sounds like this (to me):

```

    雨が降ったら、買い物をしたり、おいしい物を食べたりするつもりです。
    If it rains, I plan on going shopping and eating good things.
    
```

If you want to keep the context all in check, it's a good idea to end the
〜たり、〜たり pattern with する, here, though young people probably won't care... and
you might find yourself in informal conversations where people break all sorts
of grammatical rules. :)
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In Martin's 1975 _Reference Grammar of Japanese_ , he writes on page 567 that
"the structure V1 たり V2 たりする is tending to be replaced by V1 たり V2 る". (This
was back in 1975, and he cites an NHK book from 1970 as a reference, so this
information is now somewhat dated, but I think it's still true.)

He gives examples like the following, which he says appeared in 週刊朝日:

> 親が子を **殺したり** 、子どもが親を **殺す**

Presumably the above has the same meaning as the following:

> 親が子を **殺したり** 、子どもが親を **殺したり** する

You may want to insist on using ～たり～たりする yourself because that's what your
teacher tells you to do, but you should be able to understand it when other
people use ～たり～る instead. I don't think people always use ～たりする at the end of
this sort of structure.
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