Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Answer the question in the past tense because it refers to your childhood. Use “Yes, I did” or “Yes, I had a bike.” You could add one specific detail, such as when you used it or who gave it to you, to make the answer more developed and natural.

Example: Yes, I did. I had a small red bike when I was about seven, and I often rode it around my neighborhood after school.

Suggestion: Begin directly with “Yes, bikes are very popular in India,” rather than “in our India.” Avoid switching between general present facts and an unclear past-tense statement. Use linking words such as “especially” and “because,” and give specific examples of how people use bikes. Also, say “many children” instead of “more of the children,” and avoid repeating “when we were a child.”

Example: Yes, bikes are very popular in India, especially among children and young adults. Many children ride them to school, while others use them to play with their friends or travel around their neighborhoods. They are popular because they are affordable and convenient.

× Yes, I do have a bike.

✓ Yes, I had a bike.

The question asks about a past situation: whether you had a bike as a child. Therefore, use the past-tense verb had instead of the present-tense form do have.

× Yes, in our India, bikes are popular.

✓ Yes, in India, bikes are popular.

India is a proper noun and does not normally take the possessive determiner our before it. Use in India, not in our India, in this context.

× More of the children used to go to school on bikes and we used to play when we were a child.

✓ Most children used to go to school by bike, and we used to play when we were children.

Most is the appropriate quantifier when referring generally to the majority of children. More usually requires a comparison, such as more children than before. Also, we is plural, so it should be followed by the plural noun children, not the singular noun child.

× More of the children used to go to school on bikes and we used to play when we were a child.

✓ Most children used to go to school by bike, and we used to play when we were children.

The pronoun we refers to more than one person, so the noun after were should be plural: children. Use we were children rather than we were a child.