"I want to start a business with a friend."

Translation: 我想和朋友开始做生意。

[Charlimagnus]

我和朋友想开始做生意。I believe this should be accepted, any reasons why it shouldn't?

[hippietrail]

This was what I put for my first attempt too so I have the same question.

[Atte68063]

It could be argued that there is a difference between wanting to start a company with your friend and you and your friend wanting to start a company.

[hippietrail]

Really? Could you give an example of the putative difference?

[CAMARONDELAISLA]

In the first instance perhaps the friend is ignorant of the would-be empresario's desires.

[Anon341685]

Could be ignorance either statement. Need not be ignorance either statement. To mark one wrong and one right seems overly determined to have an official answer only.

[wordgeek416]

Why not 我想跟朋友开始做生意 ?

[Levi]

I think that could be accepted. Did you report it?
2018.08.19

[knoedelfri]

Why 和 and not 跟 ?

[Dr_Jerry]

跟 should be accepted, but 和 is more common conversationally.

[hippietrail]

In just sentences very similar to this one? Or in all the sentences in the course that use 跟?

[Aleksandro_RU]

Why "he"? Why not "gen"?

[Dr_Jerry]

跟 should be accepted, but 和 is more common conversationally.

[K5WONG]

I don't think 和 is more common than 跟 in this kind of sentences. It is really just personal preference.

[kuyaC]

Can I leave out the 做?

[Dr_Jerry]

Not really, because 做生意 works like “do business” in English; you need the verb for it to make sense.

[daisy861473]

我想跟一个朋友一起开始做生意 why this is not accepted

[K5WONG]

It should be accepted. Just report it.