I clicked on ‘Show Info’ and it took me to ～ている ①. But nothing there explains how BP came up with its three answers, as follows:
I looked further down the Grammar points but couldn’t find anything that explains how BP came up with the above answers. Where can I find the explanation for these answers?
This is from N5, Lesson 5, Point 10 of 12.
It’s a combination grammar point. Negative non-past negative + to be doing.
いる = to be
ている = to be doing
いない = negative non-past conjugation of いる
ていない = to not be doing
Kinda tells you at the top, negative progressive of する…している していない してない
①いる conjugates as ichidans/る verb
(the reason why you’re thrown off I think is because the lesson doesn’t specify this but now you know 
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② casual speech often drops the い after て
③する verbs can mostly be used with or without the をattachment
Thanks!!! Obviously I’ll HAVE to try to remember this in the future 
Thanks for clearing this up, i.e., items 1 and 3. But where are you referring to when you say ‘at the top’? Top of where? I went to the ‘suru’ grammar point but it’s not there…
I meant it tells you what is looking for at the top, negative progressive
This question is testing you on the one grammar point, but it’s using 2 things,
if you can connect いる to a verb and make progressive,
And if you can negate an ichidan/る verb making it negative. 3 lessons before the progressive grammar point
I think maybe they’re referring to how this tells you that the answer is the verb する conjugated in the negative-progressive “standard” (i. e. “non-past” probably).
Oh, THAT top…ooops, …well, as the saying goes, 'You can lead a horse to water (top), but you can’t make it drink (read)!
Thank you so much for clearing this up for me! You may not believe me, but English is my native language. Despite that, I am TERRIBLE at English grammar. All this grammar mumbo jumbo is like Klingon to me
Besides all of this, I FORGOT that suru is an irregular verb…kind of messed things up for me!!! Thanks again!
Same 
I’ve learned more English during my Japanese journey than Lit. class in school ever taught me lmfao
On any Grammar Point you can click “add note” so
If you find any additional info/answers to certain things that aren’t already in the definition on Bunpro, you can always be reminded of what helped you understand from copy and pasting the additional info, instead of winging it.
Welcome to the community! Always nice to see a fellow Kuma 
the uprising has begun 
EXACTLY, but no Lit for me! I just skated my way through ALL my English classes and others as well!
Thanks for pointing this out. I never noticed this before (or if I did, I must have ignored it). Will use it as appropriate from NOW on
Yeah the “progressive”(て-形) tag throws me off as well. Ongoing, I feel, would have been a better word to use. (I always thinks of 続ける or 益々 when Ihear “progressive” lol.)
This is my fourth language and my grasp of my native language’s grammar is definitely the worst out of all of them, and from what I’ve heard from other language learners (and people in general), that’s usually the case.
Good to hear I’m NOT alone in this! What’s weird is that I can write (and speak) quite well, i.e., MUCH better than my understanding of English grammar would indicate.
I assume this means over the years, I’ve ingrained all these grammatical rules without understanding how to consciously apply them. The GOOD news is that chances are this same assimilation of Japanese (any foreign language) grammar can be learned through usage as well.
The BAD news is that I have to try and learn this foreign grammar by trying to equate it to my English grammar…and that’s where it all falls apart 
Oh well, 根気, patience, perseverance, persistence…
As you’ve surmised, you don’t really need to understand grammar at all in order to use a language well, because learning to use a language doesn’t really directly involve learning grammar rules. When you use any language, you don’t have time to consciously construct grammatically correct sentences based on rules that you’ve memorized, that’d take way too long.
Instead, using a language that you’re fluent in happens automatically, it just flows out of you, because your brain has been rewired such that it’s become a part of you. So since your language skill isn’t conscious, it also means you can’t articulate those rules either, or at least not unless you study them separately.
When you’re learning a new language, studying grammar isn’t really required, it’s enough to just use the language for long enough (and in the right way) and it’ll eventually become second nature to you in the same way your native one is. But just diving in and trying to consume a foreign language with no foundation to stand on whatsoever is very slow and frustrating, so studying grammar can help you get a first leg to stand on. Studying grammar is kinda like putting on training wheels, it won’t help you anymore once you become fluent, but it makes getting there faster.
Hit the nail on the head
Thanks to you, I just added my first note to a review that I just finished. So I clicked on the ‘Show Info’ to find the Grammar point and then I opened that GP and added my notes.
Unfortunately, it seems that I can’t add notes to an actual review that I’m working on. So, is there a way to look up Reviews that I completed (in which I had trouble solving)? Then I could again look up the GP and add my notes as needed.
