(3) i have played tennis for 5 years. What is the difference between playing with someone and playing someone? Cambridge dictionary first sense seems to suggest intransitive,.
What's the difference between the following: 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 if someone is replaced with the speaker themselves?
He isn't playing football anymore. People often see him (who) play basketball on. People often see him (who is) playing basketball on the playground at the weekend. (1) i have been playing tennis for 5 years.
Is there no way to state the generic playing without a direct object? There aren't any more cheesburgers. Or is playing inherently a transitive verb? Both play and playing is correct here.
Playing in playing is fun can be a verb but also a noun and that probably makes the sentence more idiomatic than to play is fun. Also in us english, any more (two words) is used as a determiner to refer to quantities. I think it all comes down to idiomatic usage. (2) i was playing tennis for 5 years.