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Trifle

User since 2011
Posts: 27

12 Nov. 2012

Hi there Though " ride " can't be used for a car , don't you say : Would you take me for " a ride " ? I'm all puzzled !... Thanks to anyone who might answer ..! Chris

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Jean-Pierre
User since 2009
Posts: 21
11 Jan. 2013

Riding
on the City of New Orleans
llinois Central, Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless
riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail ...

Good morning America, how are you? Say don't you know me, I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans

Country music, a song by Johnny Cash
Riding on the City of New Orleans llinois Central, Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail ... Good morning America, how are you? Say don't you know me, I'm your native son I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans Country music, a song by Johnny Cash
Jean-Pierre
User since 2009
Posts: 21
13 Nov. 2012

When you ride a train, you must have your transportation ticket with you because you know the conductor will ask for it.
To ride is not to drive. You ride the train as a passenger. You don't drive the train. The engineer is there for that.
In the car the dog rides in the trunk and the kids on the backseat. For some safety reasons I never let the dog drive the car
:-)
When you ride a train, you must have your transportation ticket with you because you know the conductor will ask for it. To ride is not to drive. You ride the train as a passenger. You don't drive the train. The engineer is there for that. In the car the dog rides in the trunk and the kids on the backseat. For some safety reasons I never let the dog drive the car :-)
Jean-Pierre
User since 2009
Posts: 21
12 Nov. 2012

My examples :
1- This is my brand new car. Do you want me to give you a ride? And how about you to check it out?
2- My commute is a two-hour car ride because of traffic jams at rush hours.

Hope that helps.
JP.
My examples : 1- This is my brand new car. Do you want me to give you a ride? And how about you to check it out? 2- My commute is a two-hour car ride because of traffic jams at rush hours. Hope that helps. JP.
Dwight
User since 2012
Posts: 32
20 Nov. 2012

For a vehicle you sit in (not sit ON, like a motorcycle) there is indeed a strict distinction between 'to drive' (to be the driver, to be behind the steering wheel), and 'to ride' (to be on the passenger's seat). Speaking of it, I am remembering this scene in Jim Jarmusch' "Night On Earth" in the New York episode, when the cab driver says to Helmut: "I drive - you ride."
For a vehicle you sit in (not sit ON, like a motorcycle) there is indeed a strict distinction between 'to drive' (to be the driver, to be behind the steering wheel), and 'to ride' (to be on the passenger's seat). Speaking of it, I am remembering this scene in Jim Jarmusch' "Night On Earth" in the New York episode, when the cab driver says to Helmut: "I drive - you ride."
eBrain
User since 2009
Posts: 613
15 Jan. 2013

...and of course, Nat King Cole Route 66 YouTube...
...and of course, Nat King Cole Route 66 YouTube...
eBrain
User since 2009
Posts: 613
15 Jan. 2013

Yes I did (somebody in the car was playing a Jonnhy Cash's CD)! but I did not know it was the way to tell or sing it...thank you, JP, for the idiom, "It winds from Chicago to LA, .... ...When you make that California trip, Get your kicks on Route Sixty Six"
Yes I did (somebody in the car was playing a Jonnhy Cash's CD)! but I did not know it was the way to tell or sing it...thank you, JP, for the idiom, "It winds from Chicago to LA, .... ...When you make that California trip, Get your kicks on Route Sixty Six"
eBrain
User since 2009
Posts: 613
12 Jan. 2013

yes, Jean-Pierre, Johnny Cash, I remember, and Route 66 ? What about it ?
yes, Jean-Pierre, Johnny Cash, I remember, and Route 66 ? What about it ?
Trifle
User since 2011
Posts: 27
12 Nov. 2012

Hi there Though " ride " can't be used for a car , don't you say : Would you take me for " a ride " ? I'm all puzzled !... Thanks to anyone who might answer ..! Chris
Hi there Though " ride " can't be used for a car , don't you say : Would you take me for " a ride " ? I'm all puzzled !... Thanks to anyone who might answer ..! Chris
AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
13 Nov. 2012

to ride as transitive verb
They ride a horse, I ride a motorcycle, the wizzard rides a broomstick. I haven't ever seen somone "riding a car" but people use to drive a car. They sometimes ride the highways by car.
to ride as intransitive
There were patches of black ice on the road and the car skidded by riding on it. I got puzzled as that car rides well over any surface.
So I drive a car that rides well. To be checked.
to ride as transitive verb They ride a horse, I ride a motorcycle, the wizzard rides a broomstick. I haven't ever seen somone "riding a car" but people use to drive a car. They sometimes ride the highways by car. to ride as intransitive There were patches of black ice on the road and the car skidded by riding on it. I got puzzled as that car rides well over any surface. So I drive a car that rides well. To be checked.

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