Any error?

[Freeguy]

Any error?

 

[Tdol]

Yes

 

[Freeguy]

Yes

What is that error? Would you please spot and correct?

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

Do you mean apart from the fact that it's nonsense?

I imagine it's supposed to be humorous, but it is full of factual errors.

We don't say "comes out of a tree". "Comes from a tree" or, "grows on trees" would be more natural. And it's not the cocoa that grows on trees but the cocoa beans. And how many trees do you know that are salad?

 

[MikeNewYork]

I agree that it should be "comes from trees". As for the rest, since it is intended to be humorous, it is fine.

 

[Tdol]

I'd put a comma a comma before which and the last sentence is not a sentence. However, as Mike says, it doesn't matter.

 

[Freeguy]

What's the reason that "come out a of tree" is unnatural?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Beans grow on a tree and come from a tree. They were not "in the tree" and do not come "out of the tree".

 

[Freeguy]

Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the admin of this page that his post is unnatural. He insists on that I'm on the wrong track because I'm a non-native speaker. He claims that all the factual sentences are common in English. :shock:

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[MikeNewYork]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. People disagree about language all the time.

 

[Raymott]

Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the admin of this page that his post is unnatural. He insists on that I'm on the wrong track because I'm a non-native speaker. He claims that all the factual sentences are common in English. :shock:

It's all natural enough. I'd probably say cocoa "comes from a tree" rather than "comes out of a tree." Apart from that, and the perhaps the comma, there's nothing unnatural about it - for what it is. It's humour. It's not factual. It's not logical. And it's not unnatural.
Perhaps the admin is right?