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Old 04-07-2008, 11:01 PM  
Redrob
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Think of Japanese grammar as a freight train with the engine as the verb pushing the train. Just lock on the different parts of the sentence and line them up in order of importance. Put wa on the topic, ga on the subject, o on the object, de how it is happening, ni on when it is happening, e on direction to, kara on direction from, etc...

I am going to Tokyo from Osaka by train tomorrow.

Watakushi wa (I) ashita ni (tomorrow) densha de (by train) Tokyo e (to Tokyo) Osaka kara (from Osaka) ikimasu ( am going). Note. the Japanese leave off the I/you part unless it is not understood from the context of the conversation.

My Japanese is rusty. Gomen.
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