bus - coach

A bus is a large motor vehicle which carries passengers by road from one place to another. In Britain, a comfortable bus that carries passengers on long journeys is called a coach. In America, vehicles for long journeys are usually called buses.

I'm waiting for the bus back to town.

The coach leaves Cardiff at twenty to eight.

In the far horizon a silvery Greyhound bus appears.

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If you are on a bus or coach journey, you say that you are travelling or going by bus or by coach.

I don't often travel by bus.

It is cheaper to travel to London by coach than by train.

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Note that you do not say that you are travelling `by a bus' or `by the coach'.

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When someone enters a bus or coach at the beginning of their journey, you usually say that they get on it.

When I get on a bus and I see an advert, I read it.

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When someone leaves a bus or coach at the end of their journey, you usually say that they get off it.

A man of his description was seen getting off a bus near the scene of the murder.

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Note that you do not say that someone `goes into' a bus or coach, or `goes out of' it.

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