... I didn't want to take that ride because ...

[tufguy]

Do we say we take a ride?

1) I booked an Uber taxi but later on I canceled because I didn't want to take that ride because the driver was a bit suspicious.

 

[emsr2d2]

Do we say we "take a ride"?

1) I booked an Uber taxi but later on I canceled because I didn't want to take that ride because the driver was a bit suspicious.

See above. I don't understand the logic. How do you know the driver was "suspicious" (and do you mean he "looked" suspicious?) if you cancelled the Uber before it even arrived. That's what "Later on I cancelled" suggests.

 

[tufguy]

See above. I don't understand the logic. How do you know the driver was "suspicious" (and do you mean he "looked" suspicious?) if you cancelled the Uber before it even arrived. That's what "Later on I cancelled" suggests.

That was a made up situation. So we don't say "I don't want to or don't want to take any ride". Am I correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

That was a made up situation. So we don't say "I don't want to or don't want to take any ride". Am I correct?

I can think of no context in which I would utter that single sentence you've put between quotation marks in your post.

 

[Annabel Lee]

Do we say we take a ride?

1) . . . I canceled because I didn't want to take that ride because the driver was a bit suspicious.

Apart from the main issue, I'd like to note that embedding "because"-clauses within each other is poor style. Sentences with embedded "because"-clauses -- especially if they are not set off nonrestrictively, with commas -- lose their focus and become very difficult for the reader to process. To take another example, what is the point of the following sentence?

2) He got a degree in medicine because he wanted to be a doctor because he wanted to help people because he had a great deal of compassion.​

 

[tufguy]

I can think of no context in which I would utter that single sentence you've put between quotation marks in your post.

What should I say then?

 

[emsr2d2]

What should I say then?

I don't know because I don't know what you're trying to say. Please tell me in what situation you would say the following sentence to someone (note that as you presented it, it is a single eleven-word sentence):

"I don't want to or don't want to take any ride."

 

[tufguy]

I don't know because I don't know what you're trying to say. Please tell me in what situation you would say the following sentence to someone (note that as you presented it, it is a single eleven-word sentence):

"I don't want to or don't want to take any ride."

I booked an Uber but cancelled because I didn't want to travel in that car. Driver was a bit suspicious.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please tell me in what situation you would say the following sentence to someone (note that as you presented it, it is a single eleven-word sentence):

"I don't want to or don't want to take any ride."

I booked an Uber but cancelled it when it arrived because I didn't want to travel in that car. the driver was looked a bit suspicious.

Note my multiple corrections to your latest post. It's a mess. You appear to have learned nothing at all from our corrections over ten years, or even the corrections made earlier in this thread.

Are you really telling me that, in the situation in the second quote box above, you would open your mouth and utter the following eleven words direct to the driver: "I don't want to or don't want to take any ride"? I don't believe that for a second.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

I booked an Uber, but I decided not to get in the car. The driver looked "off". He looked like he had drinking or something.

 

[emsr2d2]

He looked like he had drinking or something.

There's a word missing there, @Tarheel.

 

[Tarheel]

There's a word missing there, @Tarheel.

It's too late for me to fix it.

Consider it a test of proficiency. If you automatically fill in the missing word you are at an advanced level.