Play a trick

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Vincent Teo  #543261  Fri, 18 Jul 08 11:43 PM
Can I say,

(i) One day, John felt bored. so he decided to trick the villagers.

(ii) He decided to play a trick on the villagers.

(iii)One day, he felt bored. So he was going to play a trick with villagers. 
  
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Mr Wordy  #543326  Sat, 19 Jul 08 02:15 AM

(i) Punctuation error, otherwise OK.

(ii) Fine.

(iii) Not quite correct. "Was going to play" is not exactly wrong, but to me does not read terribly well in this sentence. Also, you play a trick on someone, not with them, and "villagers" needs an article.

  
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