ostap77
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- Sep 9, 2010
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Here's an extract from a dictionary
#1 ''ride a bus American English
Ann rides the bus to work.
! To talk about someone controlling a car or other vehicle, use drive not ride: Lizzy drove the van and we kids rode in the back.''
Here's an extract from another dictionary
#2 "3 [+ obj] chiefly US : to travel over or on (a road, railway, trail, etc.) in a car, on a train, on a bicycle, etc.
▪ He spends hours riding the back roads in his truck. ▪ riding the rails ▪ We rode the bike trails for hours.'
In the second extract there's a sentence "He spends hours riding the back roads in his truck." which contradicts information given in the first one "! To talk about someone controlling a car or other vehicle, use drive not ride." If a man rides the roads in his car he's most likely the driver and not a passanger. Could you give me advice on this use of the verb "ride"?
#1 ''ride a bus American English
Ann rides the bus to work.
! To talk about someone controlling a car or other vehicle, use drive not ride: Lizzy drove the van and we kids rode in the back.''
Here's an extract from another dictionary
#2 "3 [+ obj] chiefly US : to travel over or on (a road, railway, trail, etc.) in a car, on a train, on a bicycle, etc.
▪ He spends hours riding the back roads in his truck. ▪ riding the rails ▪ We rode the bike trails for hours.'
In the second extract there's a sentence "He spends hours riding the back roads in his truck." which contradicts information given in the first one "! To talk about someone controlling a car or other vehicle, use drive not ride." If a man rides the roads in his car he's most likely the driver and not a passanger. Could you give me advice on this use of the verb "ride"?
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