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1 " Be as vigilantly on guard against translating such a sentence into the passive voice as you would against committing murder. "
― Jay Rubin , Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
2 " Instead of pressuring the Japanese into lowering trade barriers or taking a greater share of the responsibility for their own defense, we should be urging them to bring their verbs from the ends of their sentences into second place, right after their subjects, where they belong. "