"这双鞋子太小了！"
Translation:These shoes are too small!
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Correct grammar on your sentence would be: "This pair of shoes is too small!"
Actually the correct grammer would be "This pair of shoes are too small" 'pair' is plural, 'is' is singular, 'are' plural in this instance. Still regected as wrong so im just being pedantic.
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Tra193390 no, that's not right. You're referring to one pair so it's singular, not plural.
This pair... is...
The first word "This" indicates that it's singular, otherwise you would have used "these".
But "This pair of shoes is too small." is still marked wrong. I reported it
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Yeh same pair of shoes rejected a different exercise demands to use "this pair is more expencive than that pair.
You can't say "these pair of shoes" in English. However you can say "this pair of shoes" or "these pairs of shoes"
funny how in other sentences they require us to write pair, but here they completely forgot it
太……了 is used to put emphasis on something. E.g. 太好了！Fantastic!! 我太爱你了！I love you so much!
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"这双"鞋太小了 translates to "This pair" of shoes is too small.
"这些"鞋太小了. translation is "These" shoes are too small.
"this pair of shoes is too small" was rejected but I think it's fine
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Unlike in other examples, this specific one just happens to not accept the phrase "pair of shoes." lol, right when I finally get used to using it instead of saying "these shoes."
"This pair of shoes are too damn small" Why does duolingo reject this??
For fudge sake, we're supposed to be learning Mandarin Chinese...not English. "This pair of shoes" and "these shoes" both refer to 这双鞋子. Both phrases are used in everyday English and yet we get a strike for supposedly giving the wrong English equivalent. Just a bit annoying when the emphasis seem to be on getting the English structure right when we are not learning that language.
