I wrote 'Are they buying rice at the supermarket?' - I've suggested that my answer should be accepted as correct too, since Chinese doesn't use a continuous tense in the way that English does, but the present continuous English sentence seems more everyday and normal.

"Are they buying rice at the supermarket?" is marked as wrong, please fix.

It could as well be "in a supermarket" since Chinese has no definite articles.

is chinese flexible with word order? so is it possible to say 他们买米在超市吗？ Thank you-

This should accept "in the supermarket" as well as "at the supermarket".

If I want to more unambiguously ask whether they buy rice at the supermarket or not, would this be ”他们平时在超市买米吗？” ?

I dont think 'Do they buy rice at the supermarket' is an accurate translation

I feel like, although supermarket is a specific term, in colloquial English (at least in the US), store should be an acceptable translation for 超市

I put, "They are buying rice at the supermarket?" which I think should also be right. How do you tell if the question is asking if it is something they are currently doing versus something they regularly do?

i wrote "do they buy THE rice at the supermarket" and it was wrong.. because of an additional "the".

Is it right too? "Are they buying rice from supermarket"

I feel like this, in certain contexts, could also be interpreted in the past tense. I'm a correct here?

what happen to 饭 as a word for rice what's the difference between 米 and 饭？