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12-04-2008, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by chryuop View Post
The only thing I knew for sure was that こと cannot be used after the verb いる, but in that case you have to use の.
Who taught you that? Your book? We use いること all the time!

「チャイナタウンにいると自分がアメリカにいることを忘れてしまう。」
When I'm in Chinatown, I kinda forget that I'm in America.

「こどものそばにいることは親にとって大切なことだよ。」
Staying by your child is an important thing as a parent.


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Originally Posted by chryuop View Post
And then provides 2 exemples that should have a different meaning, I just can't see why LOL.
この映画を見たことを忘れていました I had forgotten I had seen this movie.
この映画を見たのを忘れました I forgot to watch that movie.
Throw that book out the window. Those two Japanese sentences mean the same thing. They both mean "I forgot the fact that I had seen this movie before."

For the second sentence to mean "I forgot to watch that movie.", you will need to change 見た to 見る.
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