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. You could use it as a way to say no when invited to play a game or a match or something similar Want to play a game of chess 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 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? 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. Which phrase is more grammatically correct
Or 2) i have played cricket for last 2 years. 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. 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. The cinema is playing the movie
Test movie is being played by the cinema But more often you will find the sentence the movie is playing at the cinema Play is used to describe both the action of an instrument (producing music and/or images) and the action of someone or something that causes an instrument to do the above. 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. Also note that even if you do explicitly use with, the meaning could be ambiguous It can either mean playing alongside someone (john and mary played bridge with martha and james) or it could mean an item being the object of play (the children played with the toys)
