can someone explain why the required answer does not include the て here?
All the question specifies, is that the verb be conjugated. The は seems to me like the more natural place to separate the answer from the prompt.
What am I missing?
— Dave
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It’s just to hint that you’re supposed to conjugate “twice”: since it might be easy to just type in “覚えて”, rather than “覚えておかなくて” . Hope this clears that up!
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Thanks for responding.
I understand that you have to conjugate twice, or more precisely, conjugate both verbs.
If I understand correctly, the grammatical structure here is て-form ーはーいけない. So the conjugation task should include the て.
No?
— Dave
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The て in てはいけない is included in the answer because it is a constant. If you are conjugating to the must not “てはいけない” form of a verb and you must use いけない, then you have two choices of what may precede the いけない: ては or ちゃ.
Since we already included the は in the prompt, people should automatically know that what comes before it is the て because it has to and it always will, so why not just include it in the prompt the same way you did with the は?
“The は seems to me like the more natural place to separate the answer from the prompt.” If you remove the て like you suggest, the は would be an extremely unnatural place to separate the answer from the prompt as you could also separate the は from the prompt and let people decide if they want to use ては or ちゃ. But at that point, why not just remove the いけない and let people decide to use whatever form they want including おかなきゃ?
The reason the て is include is arbitrary because they picked an arbitrary verb-ending to use so that you were exposed to that specific verb-ending, and there’s no reason not to include the て.
I hope that explanation didn’t sound rude, I was just trying to demonstrate why removing the て from the prompt doesn’t make more sense then just including it.
Thank you for the response, which did not at all sound rude.
— Dave