What do you do when Bunpro doesn't have a grammar point

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#1

Hello,
(Going for N4 this december)
So, I have been reading recently one article every few days of the Lifestyle section of Todai
It’s a good mix of slightly challenging new grammar points and vocabulary but still perfectly understandable.

I get a lot of exposure of passive form, nominalisation, and new grammar point introduced in N3 in Bunpro.

But here is something I encountered in that article of Todai

I learned

  1. 事がある/事 もある: " そのため、神社は屋根を直さなければならないが、修理には数百万円かかることもある"
    but also
  2. 被害はほかの神社でも見つかっており、少なくとも市内の4か所で確認されてい: ており is the formal way of saying ていて used generally in articles
  3. 警察はパトロールを増やし、金属を買い取る店への確認も厳しくしている:
    増やし is the masu-stem of the verb ふやす but without the masu. The ます-stem + 、 construction is common in news articles and formal writing because it sounds slightly more concise and formal than using て

I realised it’s a bit silly but I am annoyed I can’t store these two tidbits of grammar in Bunpro card somehow. How do you store new grammar points you get in the wild ?

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#2

It is a good question.

First it is worth saying that number 1 and 3 that you raise are actually taught as grammar points on Bunpro already (ことがある and 連用形).

For something like ており, we have a requests thread and generally keep an eye on feedback for requests. For ており specifically, this is something I have wanted to add somewhere for a while. There is a question of where something like ており fits in. With the development of Topics, we have more scope to add details for things which aren’t strictly grammar points but still good to know. Actually, ており and 連用形 are both things which would come under ‘formal writing’, which we plan to have more detailed articles on within N3 Topics.

Keep the suggestions coming (we do keep track of them!) and hopefully Topics and future content expansions will help with anything else you suspect may be missing.

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#3

#2 ており is mentioned as common in news articles in the grammar point here:

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#4

Also note that this おり comes from the verb おる which can be written 居る. いる can also be written as 居る.

Depending on the dialect of Japanese おる and いる, are often interchangeable, with おる being more formal.

For example, imagine a kid in a car with their mom, the kid might say, 「お父さんって、家におる？」which is kind of like saying, “hey speaking of dad, is he at home?” vs いる being like “hey speaking of dad, is he home?”, the おる adds this sense of presence that including the unnecessary preposition does in English.

Also note that this ており, is a classical conjugation which formed the basis for the modern たり…たり. (I remember this being mentioned in one of the Bunpro grammar points)

To answer your question. I generally just move on and expect that I will eventually learn it from Bunpro, or I consult my DOJG collection on the bookshelf