"わたしはたいそうをやっています。"
Translation:I do gymnastics.
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What is the ます form of.the main verb itself here? Why isn't that the form used, rather than the one with the auxillary?
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The ます form is やります.
ています form is the continuous form. It means I am doing gymnastics, or I do gymnastics constantly as a habit.
This can be both. やっています can be "I am doing it right now", or "I practice it regularly".
I thought regularly is yarimasu and it should be im practicing it.
Anyhow my knowledge got rusty, have to read up on it again.
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Because Gymnastics was already specific. if it wasn't specific you can use 'the' word.
E.g (not specific one) . " I will go to the Hospital" ... this hospital can be any hospital not specific one like "Maryland Hosptial / Neo Hospital" ..
if it's the specific one just remove the 'The'.. e.g (specific) : "Tommy went to Tokyo Dome last year". not The Tokyo Dome
My english isn't that good , but hopefully this helping
*Sorry for my bad english
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Just one remark when to use SURU and when to use YARU: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/15383/differences-in-usage-between-%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B-and-%E3%82%84%E3%82%8B
Could this also be "I am doing a warp-up"? I put that but it got marked wrong
