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Wouldn't 'crowd' also be considered correct in the context of sporting events?
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Where does the idea come from in the Italian statement, a sporting event. It doesn't.
The problem with your answer is that "pubblico" here means "audience". The word "crowd" translates as "folla" in Italian.
The "audience" in a sport setting is almost always referred to as "the crowd" in English, though. I've never heard anyone say "and the audience goes wild!" I think crowd is a perfectly cromulent translation here.
Wow, I'm a 70 year old English native and have just learnt a new word! Nice one!
You've not been missing out for too long - 'cromulent' was invented for a 1996 episode of The Simpsons. It seems to be catching on, but 'appropriate' and 'acceptable' seem more appropriate/acceptable.
P.S. in that case it was the audience at a political rally
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
On the other hand, audiences shout (accepted), scream (accepted), shriek (not tried) and cry out (must have "out", not tried). Moral, don't change the noun if you find a more sensible verb.
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/
No...you are wrong. The audience shouts is correct UK English. That is because the word is singular. In any case, audience is the wrong word in a sports section; the word should be spectators or crowd.
Both are correct. See for example http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/agreement-over-collective-nouns/
An "audience" is defined as "a group of spectators or listeners" e.g. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/audience
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.
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.
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Where does it say in the exercise, a soccer match. The public can shout, don't you know.
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.
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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.
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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.
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
Check here for some ideas etc including the use of the "hints".
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/4821654
There is an important difference between shouts and cheers. Cheers is when a crowd (NOT an audience at a sports match...Duolingo is plain wrong on this!) is happy. A crowd might shout if it is unhappy...with a referee's decision, for example.
