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Japanese Lesson 8 (Construction of short forms (Present Tense Affirmative,…
Japanese Lesson 8
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と思います／と言っていました
To quote a person's utterances or thoughts, you use a clause ending with a predicate in the short form, plus と思います／と言っていました.
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言っていました suggests you were there when someone said something. 言いました is used to quote someone you didn't hear personally.
To say you don't think something, it's more natural to say ないと思います rather than 思いません. Example: メアリーさんはたけしさんが好きじゃないと思います。
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Casual speech
The だ ending of な adjectives and noun + です constructions is usually dropped at the very end of a sentence, or is followed by a ね or a よ。
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To request someone not to do something, you can use negative verbal short form plus でください。
ここでしゃしんをとらないでください。
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