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GrammarJLPT N2
repeated actions or states
Expression

Definitions

  1. 1. repeated actions or states
This grammatical pattern expresses the repeated alternation of two actions, similar to "keeps doing A and B" or "alternates between A and B." It is used to describe a cycle of contrasting or related actions, such as going back and forth between two states.

Grammar

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Example sentences

Sentence 1

It's a constant cycle of buying and selling, buying and selling.

Sentence 2

His days are just eat and sleep, eat and sleep.

Sentence 3

I keep reading and forgetting, reading and forgetting.

Sentence 4

She kept opening and closing it, opening and closing it.

Sentence 5

He kept writing and erasing, writing and erasing.