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He plays cricket vs I was played cricket

The correct phrase is 'He plays cricket.' The incorrect phrase 'I was played cricket' is not a valid construction in English. The first phrase is a simple present tense statement about someone playing cricket, while the second phrase contains errors in subject-verb agreement and tense.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 8525 views

He plays cricket

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is a simple present tense statement describing someone's regular activity of playing cricket.

Examples:

  • He plays cricket every weekend.
  • She plays cricket with her friends after school.
  • He used to play cricket, actually.
  • The Hottentot in the desert doesn't play cricket.
  • There's a field where South Asian men play cricket on weekends.
  • He worked as an continued to play cricket.
  • Can't play Cricket, have babies.
  • When did you last play cricket?
  • You play cricket for the house.
  • No, there was a playground here for children to play cricket.
  • The summer afternoons when you boys would play cricket out the back of the house.
  • You can't find a white person who wants to play cricket.
  • We can play cricket together, we can be friends.
  • I know what you're thinking, I won't play cricket again.
  • When he met with an accident, he too could have... given up the desire to play cricket.
  • I think I saw you waving when we went to play cricket.
  • Anyway, I could teach him to play cricket and rugby and visit him at Eton on St Andrew's Day.
  • If Mr Blair likes to play cricket and drink tea, then that is his choice but, as President, he has other matters to attend to.
  • Come on. I'll show you how to play cricket.
  • Could they play piano at the choir practice so I could play cricket instead?
  • Does he read to Chrissie or play cricket with us like he used to?
  • And that happened a lot: "You pommies, you can't play cricket, rugby."

I was played cricket

This phrase is incorrect and not used in English.

  • He's only ever played cricket.
  • The fact is I've never played cricket.
  • Our Edmund played cricket at school.
  • There was no football in Tehran or Monaco, so I played cricket.
  • Even a broken bat can be quite effective, and I have played cricket for several years.
  • My brother played cricket as though it were a battle to the death.
  • Ever since, he has been strangely fascinated with cooking... and while other boys played cricket, he was playing kitchen-kitchen.
  • There was a time when you played cricket, you played timeless test matches, when you played on till the game got over.
  • Have you ever played indoor cricket?
  • I'd like to help but I've never played a game of cricket in my life.
  • So, you actually haven't played backyard cricket, then, have you?
  • I was played by a client.
  • David, listen to me, I was played by Sir Richard Attenborough in the film of my life.
  • And I was there that day When the "Taps" was played And they buried his name in the ground
  • Although the doctor was played with gusto.
  • Jason in our film was played by Ted White.
  • Football was played in China in the second century.
  • Football was played for longer than the question which most concerns Europe today was discussed, namely the agriculture crisis.
  • Two: the alien was played by a rubber puppet.
  • The lead Marine was played by an actor named Raymond St. James.

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