Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [形]

Pull into shape after washing.

He disappeared without a trace.

"Might be a bit stiff..." "Stiff?" "I mean the viscosity is too high."

An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive.

The grammatical form employed here is the present progressive.

Boston Dynamic's robot, RHex, is an amazing piece of work that can run over various terrains.

When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

The plural form of "louse" is "lice".

I expected more classical features, but hers is a beauty that would do well even in this age.

2. Draw a boomerang shape on the card with a pen. Cut out the boomerang you've drawn.

'Verb' refers to the predicate verb. Predicate verbs change their form depending on the subject and the time expressed.

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.

In the official question collection it is explained as being "passive voice of the present continuous tense".

There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.

Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).

It is even becoming accepted even in exam-English that that called "simple future tense" does not exist.

There are many uses of the 'present tense' of Japanese grammar which indicate things yet to happen.

This sort of structure is called a double negative, but in effect it shows affirmation.

In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.