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to iu fg ni / to iu koto wa
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(Everybody found a partner and paired up-John with Kate, Mike with
Cindy, and so on.)

1. To iu fir ni is used to express what the manner of a person's action shows
or suggests, as in KS(A), Exs.(a) and (b).
2. To iu fi, ni is used when the speaker does not want to be exact about a
message or an idea, as in KS(B) and Exs.(c) - (e).
3. As KS(C), Exs.(f) and (g) demonstrate, to iu fir ni is used to present spe-
cific examples of the way in which someone (or some people) does
something.
elated Expression]

To iu y6ni can replace to iu fir ni without changing the meaning of a dis-
course.
[I] a. 4ECiFi Ldri %iFsbat~\i {I/&iI C~E%$EQ~'Z~
-
(=KS(A))
baTb>ao
(=KS(B))
1 iC&5b>&5L1

toiukotowa I=L\jLI=Ct phl:

that; the fact that
into a topic noun clause [REL. koto]