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by Adverblessly 1287 days ago
ESL speaker here :)

I think one of the "mistakes" the English language makes is that adjectives preceed the noun they modify which "leaves you hanging" until you are listening/reading the sentence until you reach the noun and can now understand the last phrase.

It seems like your error here is partially due to that.

  I liked the movie
  I installed the update (new)
  I installed the version of Python (new)
  I installed Python 3.11
  I visited Brazil
  I visited the river of Amazon (river in the Amazon :))
  I visited San Francisco
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> I visited the river of Amazon

Except there is a river called “The Amazon River”. Native English speaker here: I feel like rivers are always prefixed with “the”:

- The Rio Grande

- The Nile River

- The Columbia River

- The Yellow River