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"I think John will come to school today."
Translation:ジョンは今日学校に来ると思います。
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Placing 「今日」at the beginning of the sentence means that on this day you have the thought that John will come to school as opposed to having that thought yesterday.
It's a bit nuanced but it becomes clear once you use two temporal adverbs in the same sentence: Today I think that Jon will come to school tomorrow.
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while bmpurifoy's explanation is great, Duo accepts "今日” at the beginning of the sentence. April 26, 2018.
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Possible reason is that John is the speaker's son or brother. When you refer your own family members to someone outside you do not add さん because it is impolite.
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I find it curious that Mr. Tanaka or Mr. Honda is never someone's son or brother. gaijin problems
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I'm sorry to correct you, but no だ for i-adjectives. It should be only 赤いと思います. (Also an unnecessary あ is seen.)
For na-adjectives: きれいだと思います。I think it's pretty/clean.
You can put any plain form of a verb or adjective before と思います.
For verbs, that includes the dictionary form (such as いく or みる), ない negative form, plain past tense affirmative that usually ends in -た, or plain negative past tense なかった.
ジョンは今日学校に来ると思います。= I think that John will come to school today.
ジョンは今日学校に来たと思います。= I think that John came to school today.
ジョンは今日学校に来ないと思います。= I think that John didn't come to school today.
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Grammatically, to both questions, yes.
Sometimes people use です/ます unnecessarily when being extremely polite, but I feel like this will never have other than the plain form before と思います even then.