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Bookmark or Share- A group of boys is/are - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeA group of boys are playing football together. ["is" would be wrong or at least very weird here!] A group of boys are/is playing football on the field. ["is" and "are" mean slightly different things.] There is only one group of boys playing football on the field. ["are" would be wrong here!]
- articles - play the guitar vs play guitar - English Language Learners ...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 research on t...
- "like doing" vs. "like to do" [duplicate] - English Language Learners ...I like playing tennis on Tuesdays. Having taken into account the following, would you please throw a light on what is the difference between the sentences above? This question was inspired by a comment left on a similar question I asked here, where a user said: Like playing vs. like to play is the question of gerund vs. infinitive. Both of ...
- Bare verb vs gerund: watching them play or playingI love watching them playing in the park. "Playing in the park" (or I suppose more technically just "playing") is a gerund phrase on its own, apart from "watching them". So what you are effectively saying is "I love watching them [noun]." As you probably know, nouns cannot be used as verbs. I love watching playing children.
- "Play" or "playing" – which one is correct and why?Both "play" and "playing" is correct here. People often see him (who is) playing basketball on the playground at the weekend. People often see him (who) play basketball on the playground at the weekend. So essentially both carry the same meaning. –
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