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28 Nov 2022: あれ is employed when two people involved in a conversation are equally distant from the object.

28 Nov 2022: この老人ホームでは元気な老人達に/を毎日海岸まで散歩させる。 In this home for the aged, they send healthy old people for a daily walk to the beach. ... Either に or を can be used in this case, because the walking is an act

28 Nov 2022: It is for this reason that eminent people distribute their cards with care. ... Some people tend to overuse this particle, but it is very useful when you wish to build up a rapport.

28 Nov 2022: sign. Some common examples: 人 ひとびと people 山 やまやま mountains 日 ひび every day, days Key to sentences.

28 Nov 2022: should be used to the fact that people are referred to differently in different contexts. ... This is why people tend to use extremely polite language in such a situation.

28 Nov 2022: まちがっているのは彼だと思う。 I think it is he who is wrong. On the principle that one cannot really know what other people are thinking, the subject of the verb 思う or 考える is ... Thus, a sentence like

28 Nov 2022: With words denoting people, で is used to express ‘by’ as in: せんたく’そうじは全部自分でします。 Washing and cleaning, I do it all by myself. ... By implication, this use of で tends to exclude other people:

28 Nov 2022: see 9.1), is it pronounced なん. For example: 何人 read なんにん means ‘how many people?’.

28 Nov 2022: When these words occur with inanimate objects or animals their use is quite regular, but when they are used in phrases that refer to people, この方 (read このかた) ‘this person’, その方

28 Nov 2022: its English equivalent, this phrase is only used for greeting people in the evening; it is not used when parting.