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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
- 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
- Is it idiomatic to say I just played or I was just playing in . . .
I was playing hockey You could use it as a way to say "No" when invited to play a game or a match or something similar For example: Want to play a game of chess? I just played Give me an hour to recharge my brain If you say, "I was just playing" it means that you were just kidding around about whatever the topic of the conversation is For
- play or playing? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Cook (2000) defined language play as playing with words and meanings, playing in language and creating fictional words, and playing with pragmatics, which entails enjoyment with language
- 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?
- 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"
- word usage - “Play with a guitar” VS “Play on a guitar” - English . . .
With the verb "play", and with the meaning of playing music, "on" necessarily indicates what is used as the musical instrument, so "I play it on my guitar" is the most natural, and can only mean the guitar itself is the musical instrument Even if the song is drummed on the guitar, the guitar itself is the drum In the same context, the preposition "with" indicates what object you used to play
- present perfect - Team A played has played well - English Language . . .
Suppose team A is playing team B The referee blows his whistle to signal the end of the game (team B wins) Ten seconds after that, a player on team B says: 1 Team A played well, but they lost be
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