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revised When is 「だ/である」required between a noun and the quotation particle と?
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comment Learning Japanese rhetoric and composition
As I said, I just passed N1 (and I passed 2-kyuu many years ago) but passing does not mean your are competent in all areas. I need to improve my creative abilities too but before I can do that I think I need to actively read and think about how to use the language.
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answered Learning Japanese rhetoric and composition
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comment Function of the first の in とかの他の
It sounds like "this or that 'or something else' " but can you give the sentence and context this comes from?
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comment How does the use of いかんによっては in this question determine one answer over another?
Question: Is the probably/でしょう necessary in your second sentence? It might work in conversation (where it acts a "I think") but surely this is a statement of fact? I was looking another example in my textbook 「国によって習慣が違う」Can we really add でしょう to this sentence? I am not a native speaker but as a written sentence it feels less natural.
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answered How does the use of いかんによっては in this question determine one answer over another?
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comment What is “masu-stem + ざま”?
@Dono:Most text books and reference books for Japanese learners refer to the "masu-stem", which is intuitively clear and easy to remember for anyone learning Japanese not linguistics.