Marcher a l'ecole

Question

"marcher a l'ecole" translates to "walks/is walking to school" so why was this marked wrong?

Cécile Janty-Davies · Accepted Answer

Hi Shamrockhill,
The question was -
You walk to school = Tu ____ à l'école 
It means you don't take the bus, the train, or get a lift in a car,  etc. so, you can only use -
 'aller à pied'.
Marcher à l'école doesn't make much sense in French.
If you said for instance -
À l'école , je marche beaucoup = I walk a lot in school 
it would mean that you do a lot of walking at school which can't be true as you spend most of your time sitting down.
You may say, however, -
En vacances, je marche beaucoup
Hope this helps!

Maarten Kamp · Answer

You are better to submit this through the report button linked to the quiz/question as your answer and the question can be linked. If posting here it really needs to have the full question and answer provided for community input.