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[Silverobama]

I was waiting for the bus with a friend of mine this morning. When the bus was arriving, I said to him “There are many students in the bus” and he asked how I knew that. I said to him “The bus starts its first stop at a university”.

The intended meaning is “The first stop of the bus route is a university so usually there will be many students taking the bus”.

Is my italic sentence natural?

 

[5jj]

You can't 'start a first stop'.

 

[emsr2d2]

I was waiting for the bus with a friend of mine this morning. When the bus was arriving, I said to him “There are many a lot of students in on the bus” and he asked how I knew that. I said to him “The This bus starts its first stops at a university first”.

The intended meaning is “The first stop of the on this bus route is a university so usually there will be many a lot of students taking the bus get on there”.

Is my italic sentence natural?

See above. I'm a little confused about the logic of this. A bus's "first stop" is the first place it stops after leaving the bus depot. If the first stop is a university, a lot of students would get on there only if the day of study was over and they were heading home. A bus heading towards a university would reasonably be expected to be carrying a lot of students.

I wonder if you meant that, after the stop you and your friend were waiting at, the bus would stop next at a university. That makes more sense. If that's the case, you would say "The next stop is the university".

 

[Silverobama]

A bus's "first stop" is the first place it stops after leaving the bus depot.

Sorry, I didn't know the place where a group of buses sit is called a "bus depot".

If the first stop is a university, a lot of students would get on there only if the day of study was over and they were heading home. A bus heading towards a university would reasonably be expected to be carrying a lot of students.

University students here don't necessarily have classes every day. If they don't have classes, they'll either work partime downtown (the university is a few stops away from downtown here.) or just stay at the univeristy. Well, they will also do other things though.

I wonder if you meant that, after the stop you and your friend were waiting at, the bus would stop next at a university. That makes more sense. If that's the case, you would say "The next stop is the university".

Hmm, sorry for not having made myself clear. The first stop of the bus is a university called SISU and me and my friend were waiting at another stop, which is three stops after SISU.

 

[emsr2d2]

Sorry, I didn't know the place where a group of buses sit is called a "bus depot".

University students here don't necessarily have classes every day. If they don't have classes, they'll either work part-time downtown (the university is a few stops away from downtown here no full stop here) or just stay at the university. Well, they will also do other things though.

Hmm, sorry for not having made myself clear. The bus's first stop of the bus is a university called SISU and me and my friend and I were waiting at another stop, which is three stops after SISU.

 

[PeterCW]

See above. I'm a little confused about the logic of this. A bus's "first stop" is the first place it stops after leaving the bus depot. If the first stop is a university, a lot of students would get on there only if the day of study was over and they were heading home. A bus heading towards a university would reasonably be expected to be carrying a lot of students.

Most BrE speakers would regard "depot" as being synonymous with "garage". In other words the place where vehicles are stored and maintained and which doesn’t have public access.

The problem is that many native speakers would use "stop" and "bus stop" interchangeably. I would just say that the route starts at the university in this case.

 

[tedmc]

What about "the starting point/origin" of the route?

 

[5jj]

That's not as natural as Pete CW's suggestion.

 

[tedmc]

That's not as natural as Pete CW's suggestion.

He hasn't given a name for the place/bus stop; just "where the route starts".

 

[emsr2d2]

He hasn't given a name for the place/bus stop; just "where the route starts".

Yes, he did. He suggested simply saying "The route starts at the university". He didn't say he was giving a name to that specific place or bus stop.

 

[tedmc]

Yes, he did. He suggested simply saying "The route starts at the university". He didn't say he was giving a name to that specific place or bus stop.

What do you call the place or bus stop then?

 

[5jj]

The bus stop by/near the university or the university bus stop.

People living of working in the vicinity would probably just refer to it as the bus stop.

People travelling to it would get a ticket to the university.

 

[tedmc]

The bus stop by/near the university or the university bus stop.

People living of working in the vicinity would probably just refer to it as the bus stop.

People travelling to it would get a ticket to the university.

Calling it a bus stop doesn't distinguish it from other bus stops. What's wrong with calling it the starting point of the bus (route)?

 

[5jj]

In some contexts, calling it the bus stop very often does make it clear which one is being referred to.

 

[emsr2d2]

Calling it a bus stop doesn't distinguish it from other bus stops. What's wrong with calling it the starting point of the bus (route)?

That's because the starting point of the bus route is the bus depot or bus garage. Once it leaves the depot, the first place it stops to pick up passengers is the first [bus] stop.

 

[tedmc]

That's because the starting point of the bus route is the bus depot or bus garage. Once it leaves the depot, the first place it stops to pick up passengers is the first [bus] stop.

As far as passengers are concerned, the starting point of the bus route is the first bus stop. The depot or garage is not part of the route.

 

[emsr2d2]

As far as passengers are concerned, the starting point of the bus route is the first bus stop. The depot or garage is not part of the route.

I'm not sure what your point is. If the first place it stops is the university, for example, then the university is the first stop. Passengers don't tend ever to refer to the "starting point of a bus route". They ask where the first stop is.