Conversational Mandarin Quiz
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David is a Mandarin learner. He wants to say: 'My friend should eat more vegetables.' He produces the sentence: '我的朋友需要多吃蔬菜。' His Mandarin teacher says the sentence is understandable but that a different modal would better match his intended English meaning.
David's intended meaning is a recommendation or advice ('should eat'), but his sentence uses 需要 ('needs to eat'). Which sentence would the teacher most likely recommend, and what specific meaning shift does David's current sentence unintentionally create?
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