
Ride a car - WordReference Forums
2007年7月16日 · Testoduro, yes! There are actually 2 mistakes in the sentence: If you're not the driver, then you're are RIDING the car. You're are riding the car is incorrect. The other mistake here is using both "you're" and "are." It's either "you're" or "you are," but not both. You're riding in the car is correct.
Drive v Ride a bicycle / motorbike | WordReference Forums
2008年8月1日 · But I don't believe that to be normal BE usage. The use of "ride" as in riding along in a motor car, riding a bus, riding a train always sounds to me to be AE. I would expect to hear "I'm on a train", "He's in a car", "He's on the bus". I would find it extraordinary to hear a Brit say "He's riding a bus home" instead of "He's coming home by bus".
The landscape hardens into a dungeon of space
2024年4月26日 · At twenty, thirty, and forty degrees below zero, not only does your car not work, but neither do your mind and body. The landscape hardens into a dungeon of space. During the winter, while I was riding to find a new calf, my jeans froze to the saddle, and in the silence that such cold creates I felt like the first person on earth, or the last.
ride / drive a car | WordReference Forums
2021年4月18日 · Rode would be normal in a reference to riding a motorcycle: I rode my motorcycle for two hours yesterday. In my part of the world, people sometimes use to take a drive when they want to express the idea that they are driving for pleasure: Yesterday, I took a long drive in the mountains.
Let's go for a motorcycle ride/Let's go riding.
2017年10月14日 · You marked " let's go driving" as incorrect. So it means that, let's go riding(in the car) also can be said to mean "let's go for a drive". In the Sesame Street song, I would say "Let's go driving in an automobile" is incorrect. It is lyrical (it sounds good) but it's not accurate. You cannot go driving!
to drive a car, to ? a plane | WordReference Forums
2005年7月17日 · I don't think we can use ride for traveling on a plane, but the other two seem perfectly fine. Depending on what you're actually saying and how your sentence is formulated you can also say take a plane or catch a plane.
Riding shotgun: BE? - WordReference Forums
2020年11月29日 · Riding shotgun was used to describe the bodyguard who rode alongside a stagecoach driver, typically armed with a shotgun to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans. In modern use, it refers to the practice of sitting alongside the driver in a moving vehicle .
Ride vs ride on | WordReference Forums
2017年3月19日 · Hello. When you're at a mall by those little rides for children, do you say "do you want to ride the dinosaur/horsie /fire engine /train..?" or is it ".. ride on.."? In case it's a taxi and you need to get in, would it be ride in? Thanks a lot in advance.
to ride one's ass - WordReference Forums
2007年11月30日 · The teacher has been riding my ass all week about turning in my paper. My dad keeps riding (on) me to mow the lawn. Stop riding my ass! I'll do at as soon as I can! It gives the sense of continued, persistent harassment, annoyance, bothering..etc..often about what the speaker considers petty/trivial.
ride a boat/ferry and drive a boat/ferry | WordReference Forums
2019年4月7日 · I am not sure about the correct verbs to use with a boat/a ferry. For example, (1) If you are a passenger, do you say, (ex) I ride a boat/a ferry to work every day. (2) If you are an operator, do you say. (ex) I drive a boat/a ferry every day. …