colours

Hello, apholina—and welcome to English Forums. Thank you for registering as a member.

You need to write carefully and use this:

The bike is black.

apholinaWhat is the difference, could you tell me please?

With bikes, the other is just wrong. With people they have different meanings:

The woman is black = Th

If you are looking at a (for example) red bike in a shop, you might ask the salesman 'Have you got this model in black?" This 'in + colour' is quite common when talking about clothes, but it's possible with other things, in my opinion.

apholinatell me please can we say 'bike is in black' or we have to say'bike is black' ? What is the difference, could you tell me plese?

"the bike is black" is the plain way of describing the colour. When you say something is "in" a certain colour, it has extra connotations that the colour is a design or styling choice made available by a manufacturer, or some

Thank you Mister Micawber, but I saw it myself; it was written in the book (that is Family and Friends 2) "the scooters are available in pink, red or blue". We did homework with my son and should have described an outdoor toy, so we described a scateboard and wrote that 'it is in black and orange'. Is it a mistake? where can we find a rule? I looked through Swan, Longman dictionaries and many othe

apholina I saw it myself; it was written in the book

GPY and I have covered this.

yes, I agree with you, but nevertheless I think we can say like this;look, we can say the bird is yellow but we can't say the bird is in yellow; but if we say the bike is in black it means that it is coloured in black. I don't know I think it's not a mistake ( our teacher considered it as a big mistake)

apholinayes, I agree with you, but nevertheless I think we can say like this;look, we can say the bird is yellow but we can't say the bird is in yellow; but if we say the bike is in black it means that it is coloured in black. I don't know I think it's not a mistake ( our teacher considered it as a big mistake)

If you have a bike in front of you and say 'The b

apholinawe can say the bird is yellow but we can't say the bird is in yellow;

"The bird is in yellow" sounds odd because the yellow colour is not related to human choice or design, unlike the colour of a manufactured item.