Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums

[dido4]

1. John parctices baseball every day.
2. John practices playing baseball every day.

Q1: Is the #1 sentence right?
Q2: Any difference between these two?

---------------------------------------------------

3. John practices hitting.
4. John practices hitting the ball.

Q3. What's the difference between these two?

Thank you

[pugachevV]

Both your baseball sentences are OK and very common.

In your hitting sentences:-
The difference between the two is that the second one specifies that John practises (US sp. practices)hitting the ball.

In the first sentence what he hits is not specified.
Of course, if you are talking about baseball, you would assume it meant hitting the ball, but without context it could be anything.