在简短表述时,可以听到:how do you go there,by car or by bus?--- by car (不用说全句,只用介词短语就可以了。)。
用“by+交通工具名词”表示交通方式.此时交通工具的名词只能用单数,不能用复数,也不能被冠词或物主代词等限定.如:by bike(骑自行车),by bus(乘公共汽车),by car(乘出租车),by train(乘火车),by ship(乘轮船),by plane(乘飞机)、by boat(坐船)等.如:
They often go home by bus.他们经常坐公共汽车回家。
I come here by taxi.我乘出租车来这儿的。
He goes to work by bike.他骑自行车去上班。
by spaceship乘坐宇宙飞船。
小结:
by /take +交通工具
by bus/take the bus坐公交
by taxi / take a taxi坐出租车
by car / take a car乘汽车
by plane / take a plane坐飞机
by train / take a train坐火车
by subway / by underground/take the subway乘地铁
by bike/ ride a bike骑自行车
on foot步行
board the plane登机
board the ship上船