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I am visiting a small village in China.
There is a kindergarten near the small village.
Every morning, the children in the village walk to the kindergarten.
I don't get it why my professor says it is definitely wrong to say this,
the children go to school on foot.
Normally we would simply say
The children walk to school.
The phrase on foot is typically used to draw attention to the fact that some other mode of locomotion was not used or could not be used:
We drove into the jungle in our 4x4 vehicles, but we had to abandon them and proceed on foot when the dirt road ended. The vegetation was nearly impenetrable.
It is possible that your context could support the use. For example:
The school bus gathers children from the surrounding villages and brings them to the school parking lot. But the school is perched high up on a hill, overlooking the valley, and the children must go the final quarter mile on foot.
definitely wrong , as suggested by the OP's teacher, or not? Because that is the crux of the question.
Jan 15, 2017 at 12:46
You can say: "The children go to school by walking. "
