"My brother is always breaking the rules."

Translation: Mio fratello sta sempre a rompere le regole.

[Jillkt]

Why does a simpler translation like "Mio fratello rompe sempre le regole" not work? Why the "lui è sempre a rompere..." construction?

[AntonyHodgson]

Because it's the section on infinitives? :)

[wiplala]

yeah, right, but the answer is not wrong is it? well, one heart left...

[Lysa86]

that shouldn't be a good reason, one could come across this sentence doing the random practice...