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3
(To look after your health, it is apparently effective to exercise for
about 30 minutes every day.)

1. omowareru is the passive form of omou 'to feel; to think,' but
omowareru in the present entry does not have the meaning of passivity;
rather it has the meaning of autogenesis, i.e., what the speaker / writer
feels /thinks spontaneously. The fact that omowarenr is different from
the real passive use should become clear by the fact that the former does
not have the true agent, but the latter does.The true passive by definition
involves an agent (= actor) and the agent is marked by ni in passive sen-
tences. Thus genuine passive sentences should be grammatical with a
ni-marked agent. That is why the addition of a ni-marked agent to
KS(A) and (B) as in (la) and (2a), respectively, will produce ungram-
matical sentences. (lb) and (2b) are grammatical, because here ni indi-
cates not an agent 'by' but an experiencer 'to.' Compare (1) and (2)
with genuine passives of (3) and (4).

b. %Lt:tt%+a)E%bi4+h rl b h 5 ~:,F.~~IZI~
(To me it seems that the business conditions of the coming
year are better than those of this year.)

b. $LtZtzZa)%%o&%ii&-fi~fl &&a tEbha0
(To me it appears that the treatment of this disease takes
approximately one month.)
(3) ?tvgZkBLkC, ~CZif&l?2,Rbh1?~~
(If you do such a thing, you will be regarded as a fool.)