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Thread poster: Justin Trumain

Justin Trumain
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Two simple sentences. Oct 8, 2016

Yes, French picks the possessive gender of the following noun/object, while English refers to the sentence subject gender when picking the possessive pronoun.

But this is definitely not a critical error, because it is clear what happened in both sentences. Google can definitely make more serious errors than that one leaving you in doubt what messages/events/situations were supposed to be rendered.

What do you have here in both sentences? Just simple phrasing and SVO str... See more
Yes, French picks the possessive gender of the following noun/object, while English refers to the sentence subject gender when picking the possessive pronoun.

But this is definitely not a critical error, because it is clear what happened in both sentences. Google can definitely make more serious errors than that one leaving you in doubt what messages/events/situations were supposed to be rendered.

What do you have here in both sentences? Just simple phrasing and SVO structure. Google can handle that.



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