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Bookmark or Share- Dressing room/changing room or locker room ... - WordReference Forums"Footballers" and "match" looks like non-US English (in the US, we would say "football players" and "game"), so you should use a British or other Commonwealth term. In the US, all three are used, but only one of them in relation to sports:
- in / on the tennis court | WordReference ForumsThat means within or outside the lines that are the limits of the playing surface. That has no bearing on the use of in or on when referring to tennis players. 2. Your second quotation refers to the French Revolution in the 18th century. The tennis court at Versailles was a building, not an outdoor court as used for lawn tennis.
- Players, Player's and Players' - WordReference ForumsPlayers - plural of player Player's - possessive, belonging to a player. I found a player's uniform in the room. Players' - plural possessive, belonging to a group of players. The team has a problem because its players' uniforms are missing.
- Play in /Play on / Play for a team | WordReference ForumsHello Everybody! I would like to know which one of is not correct or how to use them. Context is soccer team: He estado jugando en este equipo por mucho tiempo. My try: "I've been playing in this team for a long time" but I've found "play for" reading a document about a soccer player. Is my...
- All players vs all the players | WordReference Forums“The players of that team are better than our players.” "The use of the preposition OF in the example above shows two close relations; the first is the sense of “possession” (the players belonged to that team),which is close to the sense of position (the players are in or on that team).
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