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Hi, there
Could you help me with some questions? Please!!
1) Let us say you are a basketball player. Does it sound odd to say "I am better at defensive/offensive play"?
2) In/At(in or att) fotball, what is a existing player?
3) In a video, a couple is having a decorator over(or having a decorator IN???) and they say they are getting the living room and the bathroom picked up. Does it mean "cleaning up"? Why did they say "get picked up" and not just "pick up"?
4) Is it odd to say "We are going to hike this/that trail tomorrow"? "We hiked this trail yesterday"?
5) Let us say you are looking at(which verb would you use here? Look???) some photos of your girlfriend and you say "This is the one that she is most beautiful"... Is this odd? Should it be "the most beautiful"?
Thank you a lot!
Happy holidays!
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Hi Gabriel,
#1 - Conversationally, you'd probably say I'm better at playing defense/offense, or I play defense/offense better.
#2 - "In football..." but I'm not sure what other information you want.
#3 - Inviting a decorating OVER, or bringing IN a decorator... And in that context, picking up likely means cleaning up. It varies based on where you live. Some people also say "red up." I don't like that one!
#4 - Neither really sounds wrong to me... You'd probably use "this" trail if you were at the location at the moment, or perhaps pointing to it on a list or map.
#5 - If you are looking at pictures... If you are talking to someone else, you'd say "she looks the most beautiful in this one" while pointing at it. If you are talking to her, you'd say "you look the most beautiful in this one."
Though there could be other opinions or "right" answers, hope my input helps a bit!
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