Are the following sentences acceptable, natural or not natural? Thank you.
1. There are many advantages to taking/riding the bus.
2. There are many advantages in taking/riding the bus.
3. There are many advantages if you take/ride the bus.
Originally Posted by maoyueh
Each sentence is acceptable, and I would class them all natural. I say similar sentences myself.
"I'm currently riding the bus."
"I'm taking the bus to uni."
"I can take the bus to uni."
Doesn't make a difference if you say take/taking or ride/riding. However, it is more common to say 'take/taking'. But that does not mean the use is incorrect.
I'm not a teacher yet, but I am studying a Bachelor of Education with an English Literature major at Charles Sturt University, in NSW, Australia.
I don't like "There are many advantages in taking/riding/getting the bus".
Generally, we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of something.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Thank you for your professional opinion. However, I have seen quite a few similar sentences in Corpus of Contemporary American English. For example, I quote " There are obvious advantages in trying to solve the matter ahead of time. "
Regards,
maoyueh
Quite often I've heard of 'the advantages in' something.
I would say it comes down to preference in some cases.
I'm not a teacher yet, but I am studying a Bachelor of Education with an English Literature major at Charles Sturt University, in NSW, Australia.
Where I live, advantages to is much more common than advantages of or in.
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