"Why didn't you come to work yesterday?"
Translation:昨天为什么你没有来工作？
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That is now accepted (at least it is when using the word bank to compose the answer)
I live in northern China (Tianjin), and often hear "没来" without the "有". So I wrote: 你昨天为什么没来工作？Is this grammatically correct or just a colloquialism?
That is the way I was taught to speak by 3 Chinese teachers (two from Beijing and one from southern China).
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When translating this sentence, the omission of 有 (yǒu) suddenly occurred to me: maybe I learned it this way from my teacher too (and can I find this construction also in my study books). I had planned to regularly check if (and to what extent) Duolingo deviates from what is in my study books, but I have not done so yet ...
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This seems a reasonable question so I don’t know why you’ve had four down votes. Have an up vote and a lingot.
This is a huge issue. The subject comes first in most of these answers. How can this mistake have slipped through the net? This is the most important and basic grammar structure in the language
I don't understand how the Duolingo team are putting these together, as it's just a simple fact that most native Chinese speakers usually put the subject first in these types of sentences? Surely this should have been fixed by now?
Same idea... i m wondering why such a so popular app has so many mistakes and bugs... same with practice botton. Every time the excercise is the same for me
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I tried all the possibilities but Duo only accepts when 为什么stands in front of 你。How come?
No reason. I believe 你, 昨天, and 为什么 can go in any order, although the different orders do change which part of the sentence is being stressed a bit.
中国人，请问：
There are many ways to order 你、昨天、为什么 in this sentence, but which one is most usual/neutral? If there is no special emphasis on 昨天 (or anything else), I assume the rest of the sentence would be in the order 你昨天没来工作 (对吗？) but where would you put 为什么？
What is the reason that 没有 is needed here? Isn't 昨天 implying the past already?
I wrote 为什么昨天你不来到工作 but it was marked wrong. Why 没有来 here instead of 不来到？Is mine wrong?
