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 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. 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? 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.
It sounds like how a pro football player would tell their origin story I was already playing football when i was 5. 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. 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. I think that on the field and in the field are often used rather interchangeably in such contexts, with limited regard for what kind of field it is If it is actually a totally undeveloped meadow, on the field seems less likely, but in informal speech might still be used. 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”
