"My older brother plays basketball pretty well."
Translation:我的哥哥打篮球打得不错。
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These sentences are actually the same things, even if the main sentence contains modifiers (的,得) for stricter purpose of forming sentences.
Better to include the modifiers in formal writing - that is the difference
Exactly. I see many people wanting to take shortcuts, but in a formal test, shortcuts wont cut it. I say just learn the book way and make note of shortcuts, but don't always look to use them in these exercises.
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The problem is there are plenty of examples within duolingo itself that dropped the modifier 的 when it comes to referencing family in the other modules (and accepted as answers!). It's inconsistent.
Repeating 打 makes it clear that 很不错 is about his playing and not about the game hes playing
If anyone could explain this construction, I would appreciate it. It seems horribly inefficient to me.
Duo's tips are helpful: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/zs/Sports-1/tips
As well as the outside links already posted by hippietrail and Artikyulet.
Chinese is very dense language, I guess it helps to understand when the speaker is speaking fast. You repeat 打 before 得不错 because 不错 qualifies 打. With bigger and more complex sentences, that type of construction will be very useful.
To those who feel like using 打 twice is inefficient, another way to say this is to bring the objective to the front and say "我的哥哥篮球打得不错“
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Is this about what Chinese Grammar Wiki calls "separable verbs", or is this something else?
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Separable_verb
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It's a little bit about that, and a bit about learning to use the new "de" (得）。 This is "彳部的 ‘得’”， which is used to preface modifiers of verbs. Everything I know about this I learned from this Chinese Pod video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggPbyZN96ss
Last lesson the correct answer was with only "爸爸" for "my father", but now putting only "哥哥" wasn't enough for "my older brother". Shouldn't it be accepted as well?
That's the answer I gave to "My older brother plays basketball pretty well." No idea why it was scored 'incorrect.'
See....'pretty well' is ok hete, but not in a previous question where they use...'very well'
