Japanese grammar points

inviting, offering, and deciding together

five tests that decide it, not one useless line

one English verb, and the body part that picks the Japanese one

where it is, versus where it happens

not animate vs inanimate — a taxi takes ある

three kanji, one reading — use the antonym

to come to do · to become able to

your decision vs one that landed on you

so that vs in order to

three ways to say only

looks like · apparently · it seems

which “if” goes where

ready for later vs done and dusted

how you feel about it vs where the clock is

three negative て-forms, one of them a cause

your reasoning, or simply the situation

before, after, and the one that says the first act had to finish

one た between an experience you have had and something that happens sometimes

holding a view, and doing the work of reaching one

why 彼は寒い is blocked, and what to say instead

borrow, lend, give back — and the particle that changes with the direction

which way the favour is travelling

開く vs 開ける, and who gets blamed

a state, and a state somebody left

one ending doing three unrelated jobs

permission and obligation as one grid

resolve, schedule, and deciding just now

which nominaliser, and when it's forced

two verbs English calls know

a sneer vs a plain contrast

there's no way vs that's not to say

copying a manner vs freezing a state

weighing a degree vs weighing a label

three ways to say "as X happens, Y follows"

blame, credit, and a neutral cause

a tendency, a trait, and a touch of something

easy and hard to do — and the one that needs a person suffering

the particle for something you knew and cannot retrieve

the whole stretch, a point inside it, or a window about to close

the setting, the viewpoint, and the target

one question decides which keigo you need

two things English calls “should”

in view by itself, or a chance you got

three ways to say "as soon as"

cannot bring myself to vs might well

forced, left over, or owed

three formal ways to say although

as expected of, all the more because

resolve, logic, and formality

it varies, it's tuned, or it hangs on one thing

one kana apart, and を is a different pattern

no chance of it happening, against flat refusal

two are register twins; つつある is a change mid-flight

one suffix from 切る — only that, and nothing since

an urge, a lasting wish, and composure failing

scattered, smeared, or nothing but

the tier above とたん — and one of them repeats

three unrelated patterns, one spelling

three “even”, split by register

one trip, one visit, or one second career

a precondition, a skipped step, a removed ingredient

a sign, a judgement, and an ordinary rule