Tell me the correct tense for that sentence

tom started his business in spain three months ago. when he returns to italym he (spend) nine months there.

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Which literary device does orwell most use to support his purpose in writing in this passage? characters, to show that what happens on the farm is fiction allegory, to show similarities between the farm and the soviet union point of view, to show how the characters think about the murders setting, to show that events in the soviet union may have been caused by the economy