Learn about the English verbs we use with your favorite sports. PLAY, GO, and DO are used for different sports. In this lesson, you will learn how to know which sport to use with each sport.
Difference between do, go, and play
Learn the difference between do, go, and play with meaning and Examples.
1. How to use "do"
To perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified).
Examples:
- Do the shopping.
- Let them do what they want.
- Do no through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
- The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
- Great men’s sons seldom do well.
- Better to do well than to say well.
- Crows do not pick crow’s eyes.
- Never trust another what you should do yourself.
- Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
2. How to use "go"
To go somewhere to do something.
Examples:
- Go fishing.
- He's full of go.
- Never go to bed on an argument.
- Love makes the world go round.
- Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.
- Muck and money go together.
- Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
- Never let the sun go down on your anger.
- Go for wool and come home shorn.
- Without respect, love cannot go far.
2. How to use "play"
Engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.
Examples:
- Play football.
- He taught himself to play the violin.
- If wise men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- It is better to play with the ears than the tongue.
- He would rather play than work.
- The play received rave reviews from the critics.
- The play was a very great success.
- I play tennis twice a week.
- He loves to play table tennis.
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