Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Answer directly, then add one or two specific details. Use the natural phrase “midnight blue,” not “blue in midnight,” and replace “litter adventures” with “little adventures.” Avoid repeating “different places”; also, “which was very exciting” sounds more natural than “which gave me a lot of excitement.”

Example: Yes, I did. It was a midnight-blue bike with silver details, and I loved riding it around my neighbourhood. I often took it on little adventures to places like abandoned industrial buildings and nearby woodland, which was very exciting.

Suggestion: State your opinion clearly and support it with a logical reason. Use “Bikes were” instead of “It was,” and say “taxis and Uber” rather than “taxis in the Uber.” Add commas to separate the examples, and replace “people skip it” with the more natural “people tend to avoid cycling.”

Example: Unfortunately, bikes aren’t as popular as I’d like them to be. They used to be a major form of transportation, but nowadays people tend to choose more convenient options, such as buses, the underground and taxis or Uber. As a result, fewer people use bikes for their daily commute.

× It was a bike in midnight, blue and silver colours.

✓ It was a midnight-blue-and-silver bike.

The preposition in is incorrect before midnight in this context. Midnight-blue is a compound adjective that describes the colour of the bike, so it should be placed before the noun and joined with hyphens.

× Unfortunately not as popular as I wish.

✓ Unfortunately, they are not as popular as I wish they were.

The original sentence is missing a subject and a verb. The pronoun they refers to bikes, and the verb are is needed to form a complete present-tense sentence. The phrase I wish they were completes the comparison naturally.

× It was one of the major modes of transportation back then but now with extensive and more advanced transportation networks like buses the underground and taxis in the Uber, which are more convenient nowadays, people skip it.

✓ It was one of the major modes of transportation back then, but now, with extensive and more advanced transportation networks like buses, the Underground, and Uber taxis, which are more convenient nowadays, people skip it.

The phrase taxis in the Uber uses the wrong preposition and is not natural English. Uber taxis or taxis on Uber is more appropriate. The correction uses Uber taxis, which does not require a preposition.