I would say the same thing if someone asked me, "how long have you been playing this game?" The verb tenses "played" and "been playing" are different -- but "been playing" means that the …

What's the difference between I have been playing tennis for five years. and I have played tennis for five years. Are they grammatically correct? If yes, how are they different in meaning/nu...

I was taught that when we want to say "produce sound on a musical instrument", we should always use the definite article before the instrument ("play the guitar/piano/violin"). I did …

I'm describing a scene in which the father picks up the kid and puts her on the piano. While doing it, a random sound comes out of the piano because some keys were randomly pressed by the …

The teams finished the contest Saturday before playing their regulary-scheduled game. The Pirates won 5-3 in 11 innings. (Pirates Defeat Cubs 5-3 in Completion of Suspended Game, …

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 …

So a smile playing about one's lips is a smile happening around the mouth, and probably starting to affect the mouth. It's the beginning of a smile, a smile threatening to break full on to …

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.

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 …

Just One more thing, if i used the concept of parallelism like -"I prefer studying rather than playing". "I prefer to study rather than to play" in one of my essays ,regardless of the many …