Edmonton Journal: Festival preview: Sax player has history of playing with all the blues greats
Festival preview: Sax player has history of playing with all the blues greats
American Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen Discusses Dion, The Saxophone, His Wife Patti’s Vocal Production And Playing Guitar On Dion’s ‘Blues With Friends’
Bruce Springsteen Discusses Dion, The Saxophone, His Wife Patti’s Vocal Production And Playing Guitar On Dion’s ‘Blues With Friends’
When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.
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.
Is there no way to state the generic playing without a direct object? Or is "playing" inherently a transitive verb? Cambridge Dictionary first sense seems to suggest intransitive, but it seems to always have a "with him" or "on the street" after it. Is it natural to have this kind of conversation: "What were you doing?" "I was playing." "Oh, what did you play?/Who do you play with?"
Is it idiomatic to say "I just played" or "I was just playing" in ...
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.
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?