YOU SAID:
The monkey ate the banana and picked his nose
INTO JAPANESE
猿はバナナを食べて鼻をつまんだ
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The monkey ate a banana and pinched his nose
INTO JAPANESE
サルはバナナを食べて鼻をつまんだ
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The monkey ate a banana and pinched his nose
That didn't even make that much sense in English.