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Have you gone on a roller-coaster?
I suppose we can say:
Ride on a roller-coaster.
or
Go on a roller-coaster.
What should a sentence in Present Perfect look like if we use the second possibility, when we ask about an experience of riding on it?
Have you ever gone on a roller-coaster?
or
Have you ever been on a roller-coaster?
or both?
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Re: Have you gone on a roller-coaster?
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Re: Have you gone on a roller-coaster?
And what about:
Have you ever gone on a roller-coaster?
and
Have you ever been on a roller-coaster?
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Re: Have you gone on a roller-coaster?

Originally Posted by
pedro8686
And what about:
Have you ever gone on a roller-coaster?
and
Have you ever been on a roller-coaster?
I would not say either of them in place of "Have you ever ridden a roller coaster?"
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Re: Have you gone on a roller-coaster?
I know that
Have you ever been on a roller-coaster?
is ok, I just want to know what about
Have you ever gone on a roller-coaster?
Can some native speaker take a look at it?
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Re: Have you gone on a roller-coaster?
Pedro, Daruma is right. It's Have you ever ridden (on) a roller coaster? Yes, you could say it a half dozen other ways, but we don't normally. Every sentence you have suggested is perfectly correct and might occasionally be uttered by a native speaker. Occasionally. However, Daruma's sentence is far and away the most common.
Greg
P.S. I wouldn't start dissing people in this forum just because they're not native speakers...a lot of them are right more often than you might think. Especially Daruma.
Last edited by dragn; 31-May-2009 at 17:35.
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Re: Have you gone on a roller-coaster?
Sorry, I didn't mean to diss anyone, just wanted a native speaking person to check how it sounds.
Anyway, thanks for all the replies.
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Re: Have you gone on a roller-coaster?
In British English, you don't usually say ride something unless you control it:
Can you ride a bike/a horse?
If you're a passenger, then you ride on a train/on a roller-coaster/in a bus/in a car:
Have you ever riddden on a roller-coaster?
Have you ever been on a roller-coaster? is as fine as the one just above.
Last edited by engee30; 31-May-2009 at 17:58.
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