"My son is teaching geography at a school."
Translation:Benim oğlum bir okulda coğrafya öğretiyor.
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Do you really have to count me wrong if I put okulda before oglum ? I had "Okulda oglum cografya ogretiyor (with all the accents obviously).
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"Okulda" would, I think be interpreted as "at the school" -- this has "at a school", and you need "bir okulda", to my knowledge.
And since "at a school" is new knowledge (it's not a school you had talked about previously, or you would have used "the"), putting it first sounds odd to me though I'm not sure whether it's actually wrong.
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it is "öğretir", not "öğreter"; and using the aorist tense in this sentence sounds very odd in Turkish.
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"Oğlum coğrafya bir okulda öğretiyor." was rejected. I don't get this with the word order. I mean, "bir okulda" is in the locative case so there should be no confusion of what is being taught. Is there only one correct word order here??
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it is wrong because an indefinite object (coğrafya in this case) always comes right before the verb.
but locative and the subject can switch places (correct but still sounds a bit odd)
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Okay , thank you for that information. :) So, you are implying that it is a "different story" as for an definite object (like coğrafyayı, in this case) then?