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"Angalienda Serengeti angaliona twiga"
Translation:If he had gone to the Serengeti he would have seen the giraffes
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it either needs to be 'a giraffe' or 'giraffes' for the English to sound nice. Also, 'the Serengeti' sounds far better to me.
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Could you please use the "report a problem" function to report awkward and wrong sentences? Reports are more likely to be seen by course moderators at this time.
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Reposting:
As a native British English speaker, I wouldn't use "giraffe" as a collective noun like "fish". I would say, "I saw fish, lions, tigers, and giraffes." (I would say "I saw wildebeest" though.)
I seem to have accidentally deleted the latest response. Here it is again:
LindaPasza:
Just looked it up in the dictionary: the plural can be either giraffe or giraffes, in either US or British English dictionary. I realized I tend to use either one, based on both context and position in the sentence. If there are rules, I doubt they are important enough to stress over!! ; )
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I wonder if it depends which people. Several people here have commented that they would use "the".
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Nothing against using THE Serengeti or just Serengeti... it's not an English course... it should be accepted in both ways.
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I have tried to input this sentence twenty times. I give up.
If he had gone to Sengereti he would have seen the giraffes