+1, though it's a bit of an oversimplification; People often see him (who is) playing basketball on the playground at the weekend. Something like she who is playing the piano or she of the long hair is grammatical but literary, whereas the op's *she playing the piano is out.
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He isn't playing football anymore.
People often see him (who) play basketball on the playground at.
There aren't any more cheesburgers. When i want to say that we've been continuously playing battlefield for the past 2 days, i will use present perfect continuous tense, right? This one is similar to second one in the meaning, but it emphasizes that the action of playing was completely done; Is there no way to state the generic playing without a direct object?
Cambridge dictionary first sense seems to suggest intransitive, but it. 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? Both play and playing is correct here. If he did anything else, he must have.
Or is playing inherently a transitive verb?
Also in us english, any more (two words) is used as a determiner to refer to quantities. 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. He had been playing for two hours. In uk english, anymore is.
What if someone is replaced with the speaker themselves? 1 both playing and acting may be used for what an actor dfoes in a play, film, video or tv show. Indeed player is another term for actor , and it normally has much the same. What is the difference between playing with someone and playing someone?
