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- Play or playing – which one is correct and why?
Both "play" and "playing" is correct here People often see him (who is) playing basketball on the playground at the weekend People often see him (who) play basketball on the playground at the weekend So essentially both carry the same meaning
- What is the difference between to play or to be playing
I need to be playing in Europe I need to play in Europe Which sentence is more correct or is there any difference at all?
- meaning - What difference is between playing with someone and playing . . .
Played myself in scrabble I won! What is the difference between playing with someone and playing someone? What if someone is replaced with the speaker themselves? Is the sentence in the quote cor
- Difference between have been doing, was doing and have done
1 "I have been playing tennis for five years" uses the present perfect progressive (also known as "present perfect continuous") tense It means that I continuously played tennis for the past five years and continue to play tennis in the present
- “I have been playing a lot of tennis recently“ is the action completed . . .
But if I ask an aging tennis star "are you still playing tennis," the understood meaning is "Do you play tennis games from time to time, regularly?" —an "ongoing current action" made up of many individual "completed" actions
- I have played football yesterday. is it Correct?
However, ‘yesterday’, is a specification of time You can read up about present perfect tense here It should either be “I played football yesterday”, “I was playing football yesterday”, or “I have played football before” The first sentence is in simple past tense and it simply means that you started playing football yesterday
- difference - I played football when I was young vs I was playing . . .
The progressive verb "playing" in sentence #2 suggests you repeatedly played football as a child, and are probably still playing football in the present It sounds like how a pro football player would tell their origin story: "I was already playing football when I was 5"
- Some one next door( was playing has played had been playing has been . . .
Person B: someone next door was playing had been playing heavy metal music all night long In this situation, both those two options work, but was playing sounds better, and is overall the better choice If you were having a conversation with someone whilst the music was playing, then you could use one of the other two options
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