Ride can mean travel on a bicycle or horse, or travel in a vehicle as a passenger.
The idea
Say ride a bike for controlling a bicycle and ride on the train for a passenger journey. The irregular forms are ride, rode, ridden: he has ridden.
Examples
- I ride my bicycle to the station.
- She rides a horse on weekends.
- We rode the bus to the museum yesterday.
- He has ridden this bicycle before.
- Can you ride a bike?
- They are riding on the train now.
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Watch out
Ride does not always mean driving: someone can ride a bus as a passenger. In US English, ride the bus is especially common.
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Choose the past form for yesterday. Yesterday we ___ the bus to the museum. (rode / ridden)
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rode
Rode is the past form used with yesterday.
Choose the form after has. He has ___ this bicycle before. (ridden / rode)
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ridden
Ridden follows has in the present perfect.
Choose the verb for travelling on a bicycle. She travels on a bicycle: she ___ it. (rides / drives)
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rides
Ride describes travelling on the bicycle.
Practice round
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Choose the past form for yesterday. Yesterday we ___ the bus to the museum. (rode / ridden)
Choose the form after has. He has ___ this bicycle before. (ridden / rode)
Choose the verb for travelling on a bicycle. She travels on a bicycle: she ___ it. (rides / drives)
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Describe a journey you ride on a bicycle or as a passenger.