Past Tense, Verb, and Particle

 New knowledge from 'Sherry's one day'.

Now I can write what I did in a day. I introduced present tense of writing a sentence before, and in this little diary，there are past, present and future tense. In Japanese, the present and future tense are the same. Details see the table below:

	None		Verb
Tense	Regular	Negative	Regular-action	Negative-action
Past	～でした	～じゃありませんですた	～ました	～ませんでした
Present	～です	～じゃあリません	～ます	～ません
Future	～です	～じゃあリません	～ます	～ません

 The second new knowledge here is using verbs. When you want to describe an action, you can use noun+を+verb format. For example, 'eat breakfast' would be 'breakfast を eat'. And when you add the phrase into a sentence, the end of the verb changes depends on what kind of the verb it is.

	Ru-verb	u-verb	Irregular verbs
Dictionary forms	ねる	のむ	する	くる
Present	ねます	のみます	します	きます

• ru-verb: take る out and add ます。
• u-verb: change from ~u to ~i and add ます。
• irregular verbs: It's all about memory.
• The way to change is the same to present, negative, past and past-negative.
• ねる-to sleep; のむ-to drink; する-to do; くる-to come.

The last thing I want to mention is particle such as で、を　and に。They usually appear after a word to indicate the function of the word and helping to easier understanding a sentence.

•  で: indicate the place, so if you see で comes after a word, then the word is a place.
• を：as we said above, it's a particle connect a noun and a verb.
• に: it has several usage here. The most common usage is for time such as １時に. And it also use for indicate the goal of movement. For example, 'go to school', に will be placed after 'school' to show this is the goal of 'go': 'schoolにgo' which is 'がっこうにいきます'. 

*I will stop using hiragana and katakana to show the pronunciation from now. And start to use Kanji.