"Is there a police box in this town?"
Translation:この町に交番はありますか？
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Thats what i would have gone with. Duo didnt offer aspects of that, however.
I can see dates on the desktop version at least, I'll have to double check if it is the same on mobile!
Sorry, I see it's been approved already. But how come both が and は can be used over here? Any difference in meaning?
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この町に交番はありますか？was my answer. It was not accepted. Is this because I somehow used the wrong kanji, or is duolingo trying to get me to not hurt my poor brain with loads of kanji?
Is there a purpose to the particle に here? Couldn't the particles be は and が respectively (even in question format)?
There is an unwritten grammar rule that says は cannot appear more than once within the same sentence. Also, に is paired to あります for the sentence structure; "place / item / object " に ある for existence of something or an location
To simplify further,
まち に ~ ありますか means "Is there ~ at, in the town ？"
Actually, just had a duo lesson in which it was important to use は twice in one sentence!! It was something like, during the test you can't look at your textbook. テストは、looking at your textbookは、isn't allowed. For realz!
