Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Your answer is clear and grammatically correct, but it only repeats the question and does not add detail. Include one specific memory, such as where you rode your bike or how often you used it.

Example: Yes, I had a bike when I was a child. I used to ride it around my neighborhood after school, especially at weekends.

Suggestion: Your answer has a relevant idea, but the tense and phrasing are awkward, and it trails off at the end. Use “they” to refer to bikes, replace “not quite used that much, commonly” with “not used as much,” and complete your thought with a clear reason or example.

Example: Yes, bikes used to be quite popular in my country, but for a while people didn’t use them as much. I think this was partly because more people began relying on cars and public transport.

× Yes, it was popular in my country before, but for some time it was not quite used that much, uh, commonly and then.

✓ Yes, bikes were popular in my country before, but for some time they were not used very much.

The answer refers to bikes, which is plural, so it should use the pronoun they rather than it. The verb must also agree with this plural subject: use were instead of was. The revised sentence removes the disfluent filler and the incomplete ending and keeps the answer in the past tense.