Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Your answer responds directly and includes specific details about the bike and what you did with it. Keep the verb tense consistent when talking about childhood: change “I love riding” to “I loved riding.” You could also make the final detail flow more naturally by saying “I used to race my friends.”

Example: Yes, I had a bike when I was a child. It was a little too big for me, but I loved riding it around my neighborhood. I also used to race my friends for fun.

Suggestion: Answer in the present tense and use “they” to refer to bikes. Avoid the repetition in “used to use” and the unnatural phrase “commute to go to work.” Separate commuting from leisure activities, and use a parallel structure such as “visiting cafés or cycling around the city.”

Example: Yes, bikes are quite popular in my country. Many people use them to commute to work, especially in busy cities. They’re also popular for leisure activities, such as visiting cafés or cycling around the city.

× It was actually too big for me, but I love riding it around the neighborhood and I used to race with my friends just for fun.

✓ It was actually too big for me, but I loved riding it around the neighborhood, and I used to race with my friends just for fun.

The sentence describes childhood experiences in the past, so love should be in the past tense: loved. Keep the verb tense consistent when describing actions that happened during that period.

× Yes, it was actually popular because a lot of people used to use it to commute to go to work and to do recreational activities like going to cafes or just cycle around the city

✓ Yes, bikes are actually popular because a lot of people use them to commute to work and for recreational activities, like going to cafes or just cycling around the city.

Bikes is plural, so it should be referred to with them, not it. Use a plural pronoun to match the noun it replaces.

× Yes, it was actually popular because a lot of people used to use it to commute to go to work and to do recreational activities like going to cafes or just cycle around the city

✓ Yes, bikes are actually popular because a lot of people use them to commute to work and for recreational activities, like going to cafes or just cycling around the city.

The question asks whether bikes are popular now, so use the present tense are and use rather than the past forms was and used to. Use the present tense when describing a current general situation.

× Yes, it was actually popular because a lot of people used to use it to commute to go to work and to do recreational activities like going to cafes or just cycle around the city

✓ Yes, bikes are actually popular because a lot of people use them to commute to work and for recreational activities, like going to cafes or just cycling around the city.

The examples after like should use parallel forms. Since going is an -ing form, use cycling rather than cycle. Use matching grammatical forms when listing activities.