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Nessie000 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

'on my bike'

Hi,

Please have a looik at this sentence:

I go to school on my bike

=> Is it that we use 'on' instead of 'by' because of the possessive adjective 'my'?

Thank you very much,

Nessie.
  

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Hi. Not necessary. "On" has a multiply meanings and one of them is "If you get on a bus, train, or plane, you go into it in order to travel somewhere.

— Fandorin

  • Hi.
  • Not necessary.
  • "On" has a multiply meanings and one of them is "If you get on a bus, train, or plane, you go into it in order to travel somewhere.
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Hi. Not necessary. "On" has a multiply meanings and one of them is "If you get on a bus, train, or plane, you go into it in order to travel somewhere. If you are on it, you are travelling in it."
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Hi Fandorin,

Thank you very much, but I still don't understand very well. It is 'on my bike', not 'on a bus/train/plane...'
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nessie000Hi,

Please have a looik at this sentence:

 I go to school on my bike

=> Is it that we use 'on' instead of 'by' because of the possessive adjective 'my'?

Thank you very much,

Nessie.

You get on your bike. So you should say "I go to school on my bike."  This is what I was taught.
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nessie000Hi Fandorin,
Thank you very much, but I still don't understand very well. It is 'on my bike', not 'on a bus/train/plane...'




You go to school by means of bike. You use it for arriving to school. It's used not because "my" but as to point by which mean you go to school. Is that it? Have I made out what you're asking
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you go to school on your bike? .......

do or are or is

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