"I want to start a business with a friend."
Translation:我想和朋友开始做生意。
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我和朋友想开始做生意。I believe this should be accepted, any reasons why it shouldn't?
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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.
I agree. The current sentence ("I want to start a business with a friend.") doesn't indicate a specific friend or whether that friend is willing to.
"My friend and I want to start a business" would imply that there is a specific friend and that both of you want to start a business.
In the first instance perhaps the friend is ignorant of the would-be empresario's desires.
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.
On a word-by-word basis "Me and a friend want to X" sounds much better than "I want with a friend to X" but I guess in Chinese it's fine. Reading 和 solely as "and" is definitely wrong.
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In just sentences very similar to this one? Or in all the sentences in the course that use 跟?
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I know they can be interchanged in comparison sentences as well. They can both mean with.
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Not really, because 做生意 works like “do business” in English; you need the verb for it to make sense.
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Why can't the verb 开始 be used on the noun 生意 to say "start a business" ? Is really necessary to use 2 verbs in Chinese sentence, "to start to do business"?
I don't think 和 is more common than 跟 in this kind of sentences. It is really just personal preference.
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This is a particularly egregious example of 1) an idiom (namely, the conjunction after the verb) that we have not been taught or previously seen, and yet which we are evidently supposed to know; and 2) a ridiculously restricted range of accepted answers.
