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So in my book, I'll give you the hiragana and katakana for the alphabet first and then we will move on to words and phrases and sentence structure, etc. I'm a learner too and since there's not a lot of people on here who will teach you the way to sa...

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Different Grammar Patterns

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“to realize ____”
(CLAUSEこと/NOUN)に気がつく

私は幸せないことに気がつく。

“heard that ___”
Plain-Form CLAUSE + (そうだ)

あなたは私か好きそうだ？

“make X (ADJECTIVE/NOUN)”
X を (ADJECTIVE/NOUN) + する

私の子を幸せする

“do nothing but VERB”
(て-Form VERB) + ばかりいる

“VERB nothing but NOUN”
(NOUN + ばかり + (VERB)

“(thanks to/due to the fault of) ____”
(CLAUSE1/NOUN）の+　おかげ/せい

“by no means (VERB/ADJ/NOUN)”
決して + Negative-Form-(VERB/ADJ/NOUN)

“to pretend to VERB, be NOUN, be ADJ”
VERB/NOUN/ADJ + ふりをする

“there is no need to VERB”
Dictionary-Form VERB + ことはない

“it’s not that not X”
Negative-ない-Form (ADJECTIVE/NOUN/VERB) + こと(は/も)ない

“despite X, Y”
XにもかかわらずY

“each NOUN, various NOUN”
各+NOUN

Let’s start with the hearing group
-そう
When the information you heard is certain to be true.
-らしい
When it is not certain.

-よう/みたい
When you judge something from what you are seeing and describe a current state. A possibility that a store is almost closing is not talked about in the next example.

「Verb + んとする」 means "to intend to" or "to be about to"
It is 「んとする」 that you should be looking at, and not 「とする」, to begin with.
As it says in the dictionary above, 「んとする」 is the colloquial form of 「むとす」, which is classical Japanese. The meaning is the same for both.

Everything here is stuff I noted from a site where a Korean guy teaches Japanese grammar patterns, I forgot the name but it has something about dreams.
He has a playlist on YouTube, I'll try to put one video on here if I can find it.