Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Answer directly using the simple past: “I had a bike.” Avoid “was having,” which is not natural for describing ownership, and replace “since when” with “from the age of.” Your answer also repeats the idea of having a bike; make the timeline clear and use natural phrasing such as “at the park.”

Example: Yes, I had a bike from the age of three. My father bought it for me so I could ride around the neighborhood and go to the park with my friends.

Suggestion: Give a direct answer, but avoid the unsupported claim that bikes are “the most popular thing.” Use “many people” or explain which kinds of bikes you mean. The example repeats “reach” several times and contains an unnecessary “they”; replace this with a concise explanation of where people ride and why.

Example: Yes, bikes are quite popular in Afghanistan, especially in areas where people need an affordable way to get around. Many people use them to travel to work or nearby shops because they are convenient and inexpensive.

× Yes, I was having a bike when I was a child, since when I was three years old I was having a bike until now.

✓ Yes, I had a bike when I was a child. I have had a bike since I was three years old.

The past progressive was having is not appropriate for describing ownership that began in the past and continues to the present. Use the simple past had for the childhood period and the present perfect have had with since to show that the ownership continues now.

× My father bought a bike for me to ride with my friends and to enjoy with them in park and outdoor playgrounds.

✓ My father bought a bike for me to ride with my friends and have fun with them in the park and at outdoor playgrounds.

Park is a singular countable noun here, so it needs an article: the park. The preposition at is natural for referring to outdoor playgrounds as locations. Use have fun with them to express the intended activity clearly.

× Yeah, bikes are the most popular thing which the people use in daily life.

✓ Yeah, bikes are among the most popular things people use in daily life.

Bikes refers to more than one item, so thing should be plural: things. The phrase among the most popular things also avoids suggesting that bikes are the single most popular item.

× Yeah, bikes are the most popular thing which the people use in daily life.

✓ Yeah, bikes are among the most popular things people use in daily life.

People is used in a general sense, so it normally does not take the definite article the. Say people use rather than the people use.

× For example, most of the people in Afghanistan, they use bikes to ride and reach to their destination, to reach their work, to to reach their work destination or any other destination.

✓ For example, most people in Afghanistan use bikes to travel to work or to other destinations.

The sentence repeats the subject: most people is already the subject, so they is unnecessary. It also repeats the idea of reaching destinations and includes a duplicated to. Use one clear subject and combine the repeated ideas into a concise sentence.

× For example, most of the people in Afghanistan, they use bikes to ride and reach to their destination, to reach their work, to to reach their work destination or any other destination.

✓ For example, most people in Afghanistan use bikes to travel to work or to other destinations.

Reach is normally used without to before its object. For example, say reach their destination, not reach to their destination. In the revised sentence, travel to work is used because to is required after travel when indicating a destination.