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(h) H*&$? E%&a@jr: 2 T~LC~, qii 9, &tX$sm@
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2%L&7?5io
(If we assume that Japan is a country of groupism, then Europe and the
States can be said to be countries of individualism.)
(i) 2%~- 1. Q- FILBF~~T~LC~, LD%~L\ < 5 [:a 9 IT$?,
(Assuming that the exchange rate is one dollar to 100 yen, how much
will this house amount to?)
(j) X + Y = 20 T, X $I8 7?2T;kC%, Y 13. 12 KQQ,
(If we assume that X = 8 in X + Y = 20, Y will be 12.)

(I have no objection to regarding Kazuo as our adopted son.)

(Suppose that continental China became a completely capitalized soci-
ety. How long do you think it would take for the country to become an
economic giant.)

(m) ==-~-PD&&&&&Q 100 kLkj,
(Let New York's price index be 100.)

1. The common meaning for all the uses of sun! in KS and Exs is the.
speaker's assumption about something. Vinfapast to suru is a hypotheti-
- cal assumption. Excepting the cases where to sun! is used in the sense
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- of 'regard - as -,' practically all the uses of to suru can take both non-
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past and past tenses.

The choice of the past tense over the non-past tense serves to indicate a
greater degree of hypothesis, because the past tense expresses s.t. as if a