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#!I 0 6 C PET T (only on that day)
b:
dj 0x PE 9 T (only that person)
BP 01 .tlLrbl ItL Lei L= Lti
PwL&i2f:b>-cb%f SKb>b9 L? 60K, +El KFE9Tb>b9
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L-?bG*9fz0
(Prof. Nakano is usually in his office, but today, of all days, he wasn't
there.)
%%&9 T&GL> El ~~~619 T%fl&& LT$ h
(Only on the day when I don't bring my umbrella, it rains, you know.)
Wt t *
BC@~:IE~-~, m;lca'sjJaa7maw0
(Of all times, when I am in a hurry, the bus doesn't come for ages.)
- +
~azM#!I6@~:PE9-c, BEaz kfl%&
(Only when something unpleasant happens, do other unpleasant things
occur.)
Lri.tl2d.
Z0+8@a>f b>f:9,0b:pE9T, 93 b?'sb)&0i2ab1,
(Only works written by this novelist are never boring.)

1. The phrase ni kagitte is used to express an exclusive focus on topic item
X. The predicate is either explicitly negative as in KS and Exs. (a), (c),
and (e) or implicitly negative as in Exs.(b) and (d). An explicitly afflr-
mative predicate cannot occur with ni kagitte. Examples follow:
TL * tc IfL L
(1) -?a> El EW97 {??b~b~X%R7 I: / ???% Lda9 7': / ??%%f?~
f:)o
(Only on that day {the weather was good / it was cool / I was in
good spirits} .)

2. The phrase is the particle ni with the te-form of the verb kagiru 'limit.'