Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Answer the question directly and clarify whether you mean a bicycle or a motorbike. Use the past tense consistently, remove the repeated “because,” and avoid unclear phrases such as “driving that tank.” You can add one specific detail about how you used your bicycle.

Example: Yes, I had a bicycle when I was a child, but I didn’t have a motorbike. I grew up in the 1990s, when bicycles were more affordable for many families. I often rode mine around my neighborhood.

Suggestion: Your answer gives a relevant comparison and a reason, but use past tense in “were more popular” and a more natural phrase such as “over the past few years.” Clarify whether “bikes” refers to bicycles or motorbikes, and say “long distances.”

Example: Yes, bikes are still popular in my country, although the type has changed. Bicycles used to be more common because they were affordable and easy to maintain. However, motorbikes have become increasingly popular over the past few years because they make it quicker to travel long distances.

× I don't have a motorbike while growing up because Because I grew up in the nineteen nineties era and most of the families driving that tank can only afford bicycles. So I use bicycles only.

✓ I didn't have a motorbike while growing up because I grew up in the nineteen nineties era and most of the families driving that tank could only afford bicycles. So I used bicycles only.

The student is describing a period in the past, so the past-tense forms didn't have, could afford, and used are needed instead of don't have, can afford, and use.

× I don't have a motorbike while growing up because Because I grew up in the nineteen nineties era and most of the families driving that tank can only afford bicycles.

✓ I didn't have a motorbike while growing up because I grew up in the nineteen nineties era and most of the families driving that tank could only afford bicycles.

Because is repeated consecutively. Use the conjunction only once to connect the reason to the main clause.

× Well, in the past bicycles are more popular because they were more affordable and easier to maintain.

✓ Well, in the past, bicycles were more popular because they were more affordable and easier to maintain.

The phrase in the past refers to a completed time, so use the past-tense verb were rather than the present-tense verb are.

× But recently over the years motorbikes have become more popular as you can travel long distance in a short amount of time.

✓ But recently, over the years, motorbikes have become more popular as you can travel long distances in a short amount of time.

Long distance refers to a general, countable distance in this sentence. Use the plural form long distances to describe traveling over many possible distances.