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If you are offside, you cannot participate in the play.

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Sentence

Narrator

If you are offside, you cannot participate in the play.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Giving Advice

Remember, if you're offside, you can't participate in the play.

Describing Rules

Offside is a rule; if you're offside, you're out of the play.

Explaining a Situation

The referee called offside, so he couldn't continue playing.

Asking for Clarification

If I'm slightly offside, am I still out of the play?

Rephrased versions

Formal

An offside position precludes participation in the play.

Casual

If you're offside, you're out of the game.

Simpler English

Being offside means you can't play.

Phrases to learn

offside

In a position that is not allowed according to the rules of a game.

participate in the play

To take part in the game or action.