Scooter and bike.

[tufguy]

"He used to ride that scooter with two children on the back seat."

"How to ride motorbike with a passenger on the back seat?"

Please check.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

The second sentence is not correct because you cannot start your question with "How to...". It's not a question.

How can one / you ride a motorbike with a passenger on the back seat?

I've never ridden a motorbike in my life, though.

 

[Matthew Wai]

.

"Can you tell me / do you know how to ride a motorbike with a passenger on the back seat?"

 

[tufguy]

Sorry, I didn't see that. I have stopped using "how to" but somehow I made this mistake again. Sorry for this guys.

 

[tufguy]

Correction for post# 1.


"He used to ride that scooter with two children on the back seat."

"Can you tell me how to ride a motorbike with a passenger on the back seat?"

Please check.

 

[GoesStation]

Correction for post# 1.


He used to ride that scooter with two children on the back seat."

"Can you tell me how to ride a motorbike with a passenger on the back seat?"

Please check.

There's just one small mistake in the first one: it lacks an opening quotation mark. Congratulations!

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think 'Can you show me how to ...' is also possible.

 

[tufguy]

There's just one small mistake in the first one: it lacks an opening quotation mark. Congratulations!

Yes, I put that but the Electricity went off that's why it didn't post.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Do you mean your phone battery went flat?

 

[GoesStation]

Yes, I put that but the Electricity went off that's why it didn't post.

Electricity is not a proper noun.

Electricity service is very reliable almost everywhere in the United States. I live in a rural area, though, where blackouts are much more common than they are in urban areas. Our electricity was off for three hours last Sunday morning and for two hours one day (I forget which day) the previous week.

 

[curiousmarcus]

Just to clarify, does it mean you can refer to the area on a motorbike or scooter where a second passenger seats asthe backseat, even if there is technically only one seat?

 

[tufguy]

Do you mean your phone battery went flat?

No. Power cut.

 

[emsr2d2]

No. There was a power cut.

See above.

 

[curiousmarcus]

It's not natural in BrE.

How about in AmE?

What do you refer to it as in BrE?

 

[emsr2d2]

We say that there was a passenger on the back of the motorbike or that someone was "riding pillion". If there's only one seat on a motorbike, it would make no sense to refer to anything as "the back seat".

 

[GoesStation]

How about in AmE?

What do you refer to it as in BrE?

In AmE we just say someone was riding on the back.