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Bureda (Offline)
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08-18-2008, 04:05 PM

I will help a bit. Here's a basic summary of the differences in grammar and structure:

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Japanese Has:
| Past | - | Present |

English Has:
| Past | - | Present | - | Future |

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Japanese Has:
Kore(これ)" means "this."
"Sore(それ)" means "that."
"Are(あれ)" means "that over there."

Japanese has three separate indicators.

English Has:
"this" and "that."

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Japanese Is:
Subject-Object-Verb Language

English Is:
Subject-Verb-Object Language

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Subject:
The initiation of a sentence/speech regarding its topic.

A subject defines topic of the sentence/speech.

Verb:
Verb is a word (part of speech/sentence) that usually denotes an action (bring, read), an occurrence (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand).

A Verb defines the meaning of the sentence/speech

Object:
It denotes somebody or something involved in the subject's "performance/action" of the Verb. An Object needs to relate back to the Subject and Verb and therefore define the course of the sentence.

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I hope it helps.

Cheers,
Bureda
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