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- "Возле дворца трава."
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This is something upsetting me to. I'm not a English nativ speaker, but to me your suggestion sounds way more natural. I have this problem A LOT because I always drop the "there"... I'm not sure, is it really that necessary?
You are correct. I'm a native speaker. While using "there" might be the most correct way, I naturally drop it and get counted wrong in a lot of exercises.
"Grass is near..." sounds odd. With countable nouns you can use this construct both with definite and indefinite forms: "A boy is near..." or "The boy is near...". But with noncountable nouns, only the definite version works: "The grass is near...", the indefinite doesn't. Since the definite version doesn't capture the meaning of the Russian sentence, I would go for "There is grass near..."
As a native English speaker, i would never say "Grass is near the palace" unless Grass was being used as a proper noun. I might say "There is grass near the palace" though.
Unless you were part of the underworld, meaning the police informer is near the palace;-)
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Why does it accept only palace and not castle as correct? Is the difference between the two words significant in Russian?
While the line between what we can call a castle or a palace can occasionally be blurred, but when it comes to the translation, "дворец" is "a palace" and "замок" is "a castle", and the correlation between those words in Russian is pretty much the same as in English.
why isnt "the grass near the palace" accepted? "the grass IS near the palace" seems like a strange thing to say. "where are we meeting?" is a natural context here? not "where is the grass?"
The English translation has zero article, as if "grass" is an abstract term or well-known name (a store for cannabis products perhaps?)
I don't understand where "there is" comes from in this example. Looks like "near the palace grass" to me, as if you were telling someone a location. Why isnt there a "на," at the beginning or a "-" between palace and grass?
I'm sure it isn't necessary to you anymore - considering it has been six months. But, for anyone else, "возле" is a preposition - just like на, в, с, etc.
Note: while it is also a preposition, it requires genitive case instead of prepositional case.
my guess is that, if you wanted to say "castle grass", that would translate as "трава дворца" because the "owner" in genitive should be placed after the "owned".
so if you would say "there is a dog near the palace grass" it would be " возле травы дворца собaка".
... i think
This should be "There is grass near the palace", as many other comments say
What is incorrect, according to you, with there is grass near the palace? May I say that your translation is a bit surprising. It seems that grass is a live entity!
How do we determine the order of words and its meaning? I wrote "Near the castle is grass". But it is not accepted. "Grass is near the castle" is accepted.
Sir, we have an alarming rate of G R A S S approaching the palace. What shall we do?
In just the previous exercise I misspelled дворца as дварце and got an "almost". This time I missed it by one letter and it was counted wrong.
Because that sounds totally unnatural in English and no one would ever say it. With an uncountable noun like grass the construction There is grass is the only one that makes sense. Unless you want to say The grass which sounds odd but is accepted
