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kasenbon

I was just reading up on embedded sentences ("I think something will do something" that type of stuff), and I have a small question:
The book says that "the verb omou (to think) must be in plain form and is marked by the particle to"
However, its first sample sentence "I think Santa Clause will come" is written as "Watashi wa Sanata Kurousu wa kuru to omoimasu"
Unless I've somehow screwed my head over mock exams, if you write omou as omoimasu, isn't that its polite present form and not its plain form? Or is it because you can't use a verb in its plain form at the end of the sentence?
Thanks~

louis

I don't know what's really written in the book, but you certainly don't have to write 思う in plain form, and you certainly can use a verb in plain form at the end of a sentence.

たけを

You don't need to use the plain form of 思う, you must put in plain form the verb that's before the particle と.

MaestroS

僕は彼が来ると思う。
僕は彼が来ると思います。
僕は彼が来ると思っています。
僕は彼が来ると思っている。
僕は彼が来ると思ってる。
僕は彼が来ると思ってるんだ。
僕は彼が来ると思ってるんです。

and so on ...

blutorange

I suppose the book said something like:

In embedded sentences such as "I think that XYZ., when you join a sentence with the verb 思う (to think), you must put the verb of the first sentence into its plain form and join 思う using the particle と. For example,
私はサンタクラウスが来ると思います, the first sentence "Santa Claus will come" uses the plain form 来る followed by to and then the second verb 思います in polite form to make the whole sentence polite.

nate

Side-note: 思っている means "I think/I'm thinking..." but 思っていた means "I used to think ... but I no longer do." (As in, I have changed my mind/opinion.)

日本にいくと思っている。 - I'm thinking about going to Japan.
日本に忍者が多いだと思っていた。- I used to think ninja were common in Japan.

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