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[fumi]

Dear teachers,

I am Japanese, and trying to understand and be able to use "as", "but", or "than" as a relative pronoun.

But grammatical explanation in Japanese does not make me think that I can use those words as a relative pronoun in conversation.
(In such explanation, it instruct like "Make this sentence and that sentence. And then, connect these sentences like this". But in conversation, you create sentences from the top of the sentence, right?)

Could you tell me how you construct a sentence using these words as a relative pronoun?
(By the way, should I have written "Could you tell me how do you ..." ?)

Thank you very much in advance.

Fumi

[Lorikeet]

[fumi]

Thank you very much for your answer.
I understood the answer regarding "how you ..."

As for my original question, I forgot where I saw them.

Since this topic is very old one, I am not sure if you would check this topic again.
If there is a system in this website that makes you go back to this topic after a long time, I will check where I saw the questioned words.
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[fumi]

Tha mark [/u] is not I intended to enter.
I don't know why and how it was inserted.

[fumi]

Oh, I see that as you submit your comments, the topic go to the top of the list.
Since I don't have time to check where or how "as", "but", or "than" as a relative pronoun are used now, I will do it when I get time since I now understand that there is a possibility that this question could be read and could get answer.

[Lorikeet]

I check the list every few days, so if you give me more information, I can see what I can do, but your original list didn't make sense. A quote from a source might help, or some sample sentences.