たり sentence without the final たり I just read a sentence in an answer key as follows: > I would have thought that the sentence should be: > Is there any difference between the two? Is it alway ok to not finish off with ? Although it changes the meaning of the sentence, would it also have been ok to finish off with just ?

If you are around friends... I have the feeling they wouldn't mind if you left off the bookish-sounding grammatically correct ending of (something like your second example sentence.)

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



If it rains, I plan on going shopping and eating good things.


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



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 pattern with , here, though young people probably won't care... and you might find yourself in informal conversations where people break all sorts of grammatical rules. :)