Toritoribe 松葉解禁 Moderator Fifteen-year veteran Joined 22 Feb 2008 Messages 18,266 Reaction score 4,926 26 Oct 2014 #26 raikado said: Why? This is quite a longshot but, is it because I am using a potential verb? Click to expand... Because that's grammatically wrong. でも人生にはその他に、自由に決められることがある is valid. raikado said: But if those two really were the only two things that we couldn't decide, then the sentence would be wrong, right? Click to expand... The conditional "if those two really were the only two things that we couldn't decide" is impossible in the example sentence, as I pointed out.
raikado said: Why? This is quite a longshot but, is it because I am using a potential verb? Click to expand... Because that's grammatically wrong. でも人生にはその他に、自由に決められることがある is valid. raikado said: But if those two really were the only two things that we couldn't decide, then the sentence would be wrong, right? Click to expand... The conditional "if those two really were the only two things that we couldn't decide" is impossible in the example sentence, as I pointed out.
raikado 先輩 Joined 29 Oct 2012 Messages 523 Reaction score 21 26 Oct 2014 Thread starter #27 In the second case I meant it to be hypothetical. But I think I will stop with the "what if-s". At this point I am just making up forced and unnatural sentences. Thanks for explaining this to me.
In the second case I meant it to be hypothetical. But I think I will stop with the "what if-s". At this point I am just making up forced and unnatural sentences. Thanks for explaining this to me.