"每个学生需要上科学课。"
Translation:Every student needs to attend science class.
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"Every student needs to take science class" is wrong wtf, please learn more English Duolingo
I feel "take" is slightly American, but then Duolingo does use American English (rather than British) as its benchmark, so yeah... wtf
As an Australian I also feel "take" is a bit American but then I also don't think "attend" is quite the same so I can't think of an adequate British or Australian equivalent. (It's a long time since I've gone to school though.)
I can't think of a situation where that sentence would be correct. It needs the article "a".
What's the difference? Every student needs to take a science class or Every student needs to attend science class.
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Maybe that “take” technically only refers to the act of putting that class on ones schedule but not necessarily actually going there (e.g. I can take a course but never show up and only do the final exam)? But I guess that distinction would be pretty nit-picky…
There are a LOT of universal replacements that need to be allowed on this course. Here, "has to" should be allowed as an alternative to "needs to".
