Complete the homeowner's review of their overly dramatic smart fridge.

I recently purchased a brand-new smart fridge for my kitchen. Unfortunately, it refuses to open the doors after 8 PM! I tried complaining to the manufacturer, but they said it's a "dietary feature," not a bug.

I recently purchased a brand-new smart fridge for my kitchen.

Slavic languages often don't use articles. In English, we must use the indefinite article "a" when introducing a singular, countable noun for the first time. ("An" is incorrect here because "brand-new" starts with a consonant sound).

Unfortunately, it refuses to open the doors after 8 PM!

Even though a fridge might feel like it has a stubborn personality (and would have a grammatical gender like "he" or "she" in many Slavic languages), inanimate objects in English must be referred to as "it".

I tried complaining to the manufacturer...

In English, you complain to a person or company. Directly translating prepositions from other languages often leads to errors like complaining "at" or "with".

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