Is it grammatically correct to say 'to play computer'?
Apr 27, 2015 · You may play computer games, or play games (or music or videos) on your computer, but to play a/the computer means either to play a game with the computer as your opponent, like …
There are no - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Jul 30, 2015 · All I know about "NO" is like this. There are no movies playing on Christmas day. =>There are not any movies playing on Christmas day. =>We won't be showing any movies on Christmas ...
prepositions - ON the field or IN the field? - English Language ...
Jul 12, 2019 · A quibble. If "the field" is a playing field for a sporting event - so that 'they' are groundskeepers - then "on the field" would be correct. Just as "I worked on the car".
Difference between "have been doing", "was doing" and "have done"
Feb 28, 2023 · 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 …
passive voice - The movie is playing. Or the movie is being played ...
Feb 2, 2018 · 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 …
difference - "I played football when I was young" vs "I was playing ...
Aug 26, 2020 · 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 …
prepositions - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
May 29, 2018 · I play tennis for thirty minutes every Monday. I spend thirty minutes playing tennis every Monday. Which one is correct and more natural? An English teacher had her students make a …
Do boxing or go boxing? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Sep 28, 2020 · The second link which the OP provides says 'Do not use another verb with boxing, fencing or weight training', and recommends 'I box'. Personally, I don't know enough about these …
How long have you played/how long have you been playing
Since I'm no longer playing Quake 3, "how long have you been playing" isn't appropriate - "played" is the better verb tense because the action concluded in the past.
Do we say "the children are playing on/in the field"?
Dec 9, 2020 · 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, …