Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [���]

The example is a past progressive tense sentence. How was everybody taught when they were learning about progressive tense?

For some reason the microphone didn't work earlier.

Next, let us think about whether we have the time to look after a dog.

When I inquired "what is that?" I was told, "go and find out for yourself."

In hard times, in sorrowful times, let's try doing something for other people.

But, if by that, morale drops wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the exercise?

Christmas in Japan is, if anything, a day for couples.

It's raining again. I wonder if we will be able to have the February snow festival?

I pay my university fees to go to university by part-time work. Well, I'm a 'working student' I suppose.

"You're OK without your glasses?" "Ah, these are fake you see, I thought it might make me brainier..."

Just as if that was proof that that English was correct.

There's no telling when she'll stab you in the back.

They still haven't been able to work out quite what her motive was for resorting to crime.

If I was going to the African continent where would be the safest and most sanitary place?

You're pretty late to have just gone shopping. Have you been making out someplace?

It's a fiddle going to and fro between the keyboard and mouse so are there shortcuts to allow operation using only the keyboard?

You just have to understand what sort of thing the suffix '-osity' is.

By summit, do you mean the Group of Eight?

Write two expressions that are followed by either count or non-count nouns in conversation.

I'd like to ask a grammarian, isn't it possible to think of 'be + participle' like you do V C and such?