A train is a rail vehicle that carries people or goods.
The idea
Train is countable: a train, two trains. Use by train for the means of travel and on the train for being aboard a particular train.
Examples
- The train leaves at nine.
- We travel to the city by train.
- She is on the train to the station.
- Two trains arrived this morning.
- He bought a ticket for the train.
- They missed the last train home.
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Miss the train means fail to catch it; it does not mean the train itself is lost.
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Choose the plural after two. Two ___ arrived this morning. (train / trains)
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trains
Trains is the plural form after two.
Choose the preposition for the means of travel. We travel to the city ___ train. (by / with)
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by
By train names the means of travel without an article.
Choose what missed the train means. They missed the train: they ___. (did not catch it / lost the train itself)
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did not catch it
Missed the train means they failed to catch it.
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Choose the plural after two. Two ___ arrived this morning. (train / trains)
Choose the preposition for the means of travel. We travel to the city ___ train. (by / with)
Choose what missed the train means. They missed the train: they ___. (did not catch it / lost the train itself)
did not catch it
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Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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