“Instead of pressuring the Japanese into lowering trade barriers or taking a greater share of the responsibility for their own defense, we should be urging them to bring their verbs from the ends of their sentences into second place, right after their subjects, where they belong.” HumorLanguageHumorousGrammarJapanese CultureGrammar Book Book:Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You Source: Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You