"Il pubblico grida."
Translation:The audience yells.
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Wouldn't 'crowd' also be considered correct in the context of sporting events?
Where does the idea come from in the Italian statement, a sporting event. It doesn't.
This question is in the section "sport" and the 'correct' DL translation is 'audience'... 'audience' and 'crowd' are synonymous in most every context even those beyond sport.
Yes, audiences don't usually yell. And we know we are in the sports section here. They could change the word audience to spectators to make the whole situation clearr
We only know it's sports related because of the unit title but "public" could be used for other situations also.
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Yes, crowd is colloquial. I don't know anyone who would refer to a group of sports spectators as an audience.
UK English uses the singular for a collective noun i.e. the crowd shouts but the people shout.
Surely "audience" is not an appropriate translation in a section dealing with sports? An audience attends a concert - spectators attend sporting events.
I wrote the crowd and it didn't accept the answer!! :( Is that a big mistake?
The public can be reffered to as either singular or plural in english and therefore 'the public yells' and the 'the public yell' should both be valid responses.
I thought the word "audience " was a collective noun... so I put "The audience shout".
Me too. 'Shout' or 'shouts' should both be allowed - see https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/collective_noun
You didn't misunderstand. "The audience shouts" is US English, and "the audience shout" is UK English.
For whatever reason, there are a lot of duolingo sentences that only accept US grammar 'rules' and not the UK equivalents.
(UK English speaker) I think "the audience shouts" is correct; the other option just sounds wrong.
Both are correct. See for example http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/agreement-over-collective-nouns/
Many English-speakers get that one wrong! It sounds strange to say"A herd of cows IS crossing the road" - but it is correct!
In Portuguese, my native language, we also use the singular with collective nouns.
In British English a collective non can be either singular or plural.
I thought this to. "The boy plays" vs "the boys play"
Here they correct the singular 'scream' to 'screams'
well i had the correct answer in my mind, but unfortunately I decided to go with the hint... so it seems that "the audience shouts" is no good --- why?
Crowd should definitely be an acceptable translation here, especially for the fact that it is provided in a clue. In english you wouldn't say "the public yells" at a soccer match.
Where does it say in the exercise, a soccer match. The public can shout, don't you know.
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It is grammatically correct to say "yells" but most people say "the public yell". This should be permitted by DL as colloquial English.
According to my Concise Oxford Italian Dictionary. il publico' = the public. it doe's non mention 'audience' at all, and for me 'the public shout.' as they have a right, so to do, seems to be a reasonable translation.
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I refuse to be corrected for not using the American English word "yell". In my English "yell" is considered to be a rather uncultivated word, not in polite usage.
The audience roars, shouts, yells - all should be correct. But clearly it’s not a sport event which doesn’t have an audience. As such.
Crowd: folla, moltitudine. Audience: pubblico, spettatori. Wish people would stop attributing Italian words with meanings they do not have just to fit in with what they 'think' the meaning should be. It's a different language!!!!
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DL should clarify. Otherwise learners waste time guessing instead of learning. The spectactors or the public yells should be accepted
if this is sport then the answer should be crowd audience never refers to the spectators at a sporting event ,consider the etymology of the word
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Heads up, Duo. If they are an "audience" (from the Latin 'audire', to listen, and which connotes a certain gentility), then they do not "yell." If they are a crowd, they might "yell," which is crude behavior at best. A more genteel audience might "erupt," or "cheer," but they would never "yell."
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I can never understand why DL accepts some mistakes and not others. I typed 'il publicco' - obviously wrong but when spoken there'd be no difference. But I've had errors accepted where I've typed an 'a' instead of an 'o' at the end of a verb wrongly, ditto some adjective endings, which are really more serious.
obviously wrong but when spoken there'd be no difference
If spoken in Italian there'd be plenty of difference: letters in Italian aren't just for show, they're all there for a reason, with very exceptions (the initial H being the main one). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemination#Italian
In general DL accepts a single typo in a word, as long as it doesn't spell a different word.
The crowd cheers should be acceptable in this context. Surely, outside of gramnatical accuracy translations should not be so strict!!
'The crowd roars' is surely a better English translation than the awkward 'the audience yells'. It certainly shouldn't be marked as wrong.