"I cook the food early."

Translation: Ego mane cibum coquo.

[RtLKv6dm]

Why 'Cibum coquo mane.' not accepted. It is a better translation, I think.

[PetroniusFelis]

I agree. If for some reason this translation is actually incorrect, I would be helped if someone could explain why.

[Paul704844]

I put "Ego coquo cibum mane" and it was marked wrong. Why?

[PetroniusFelis]

At this point it looks like we're probably correct. I suggest we mark it as "should have been accepted", and they will eventually get around to marking it such.

[LeodisMMXXI]

I marked it as correct also

[DavetheDuodemon.]

A bit of guidance or explanation is called for. Duolingo provides none in the Latin course.

[Sheldon405771]

Why not: "ego coquo cibum mane."

It is a straight English syntax, but the program is not teaching the syntax of Latin clearly. Oftentimes, when I can't translate the sentences with a Latin word order, I just translate the English words into Latin in the English-sentence syntax.

[Anthony541493]

I got 'Cibum mane coquo' right.

[mbrasseau]

I put cibos and it was marked correct.

But this answer uses cibum.

Which is correct?