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SeroMack Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

I like swimming and playing guitar.

Is the above sentence semantically and grammatically all right? If no, can you give any suggestions and explain what I did wrong?
  

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Hello, seroMack, Names of musical instruments and also dances usually take the definite article, so I like swimming and playing the guitar is correct. Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff

— Andriy Lapin

  • Hello, seroMack, Names of musical instruments and also dances usually take the definite article, so I like swimming and playing the guitar is correct.
  • Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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Hello, seroMack,

Names of musical instruments and also dances usually take the definite article, so

I like swimming and playing the guitar

is correct.

Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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Ehh... I put my question wrong.

It should have been:

I like playing basketball and the guitar

Now, what is wrong?
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SeroMack,

that's another kettle of fish. It is correct grammatically but dubious semantically, since and requires parallelism of the conjoints:

eg I like playing basketball and tennis.

In your case, it is virtually essential that you reword the original idea:

I'm fond of basketball; besides, I like playing the guitar.
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Thank you very much Gleb, I really appreciate such involvement in forum like yours.

But there is one more and the last thing
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You're welcome, my friend.

Joining words by means of the conjunction and is known as coordination. Elements joined this way are termed conjoints (in basketball and tennis, these are basketball, tennis). Some linguists also draw a distinction between conjoints and conjoins. According to them, basketball and tennis is a conjoint (=phrase fe
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