"Je vais acheter celles qui sont argentées."
Translation:I'm going to buy the ones that are silver-colored.
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You are not supposed to change the construction of the language. Everyone knows that your sentence is also correct, but the point is your sentence doesn't have 'the ones that are silver' which Duolingo is trying to teach to sound like a native French.
If you stick rigidly to the same structure, you get a different meaning or gobbledegook. In this case, the natural translation is available from the wordbank, so should be accepted. Also, the actual construction is "silverED", meaning covered with or coloured silver.
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Yes, I agree. The lesson is new, though, so just submit a report and your answer will probably be accepted soon enough.
It's not exactly the same. When saying "silver ones" it could mean pure silver or silver-colored. The French sentence doesn't have that ambiguity.
Pour quoi n'est pas accepté: "i'm going to buy these ones which are silver-colored" Merci
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"As a relative pronoun, que is a direct object (person or thing), and qui is either a subject (person or thing) or the object of a preposition (person only)."--https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/relative-pronouns-que-qui/.
No I HAVEN'T got a typo. "Silvery" is fine - better than "Silver". Silver shoes would be heavy, uncomfortable and totally unaffordable.
In England we spell it colored with a u coloured should be acceptable