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- "不远，你可以走路去。"
"不远，你可以走路去。"
Translation:It's not far, you can walk there.
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This is another funny English answer. There is nothing in the Chinese sentence that mentions 'there' as a place to go. It is only insinuated by 去. If I had not worked out the answer at the first level of TRAVEL, when given a few words to choose from, I would have difficulty in understanding where the 'there' came from. There is no 那. Why is the question not:不远，你可以走路去那 or 去那儿
'it's not far, you can go on foot" still rejected on the 30th - January. This is depressing.
Without 去 it would be simply "you can walk" adding it, 走路去 implies a destination (there) "you can walk there"
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Like a lot of Chinese words they are often made up of two characters incorporating a verb and noun, such as 走 and 路. 走 does mean walk, but it can be accompanied by many suffix-like characters that modify the meaning. 走 路 specifically means to go on foot, or walk on the street to get to some place.
The options had two words starting with capital letters. That needs to be corrected. Only one word should be capitalized unless it's "I" or a proper noun.
I think they were implying that the English translation was taking up 2 sentences. The word choice thing for the app doesn't have punctuation, i think, so it's hard to tell. Maybe :).
I still need to get used to the fact that in chinese you can refer to a subject that doesn't seem to be in the sentence.
