Should have known there was going to be a twist! Thanks for this grammar point. In theory, this isn’t too difficult. But in practice it’s so tricky. But now I’ll always remember 代わりに娘さんを一生懸命働かさせます！

Oh, yeah, I love the JPOD twists!! (See iLove video, “Twist of Fate”^^)

VIcky-san, 久々！「ひさびさ」 Yes, you should have the best one, no? If you’re going to make one, be sure to make one for me too!

Liz-san, 久々！「ひさびさ」 なつかしい〜。iLove!

Steve-san, mastering this grammar pattern will really bring you Japanese to the “next level.” I usually pick a phrase and try to use it as much as possible to build familiarity.
For example, with my friend I would always say:
この「something」を食べさせる　I’ll make you eat this “something.”

While the sentence isn’t very deep, and in retrospect pretty foolish, using it over-and-over did serve the point of reinforcing the grammatical contruction and building familiarity. Soon I was successfully using the contruction with other verbs, and in more sophisticated conversations.

Two lessons with Naomi in one day? I’m starting to like Englishpod more and more I like the intro by the way, it’s very Samurai Champloo-ish

That was a great sentence, it’s a lot funnier when you can understand the stuff first time

代わりに is a good grammar point in itself. It could have been useful to cover it in more detail. I’ll try an ambitious explanation, hopefully someone can correct the mistakes.

Noun + の代わりに
Verb (plain form) + 代わりに

今日サチコさんの代わりに直美先生はEnglishPodを担当しました。
Naomi hosted Englishpod instead of Sachiko today.
昨日雨のせいで買物に行く代わりに家に残っちゃったさ。
I stayed at home instead of going shopping yesterday because of the rain.

Sorry not homeworker but homemaker

Vickyさん！

오랜만이에요!

Vicky-san!

Why didn’t you come to help us out at Englishpod101.com with 101 comments inaguration!

We can’t make it with out you, we only have 48-50 comments, we are half afar and we want to be farahead. S_R_C

I’m glad they aren’t getting married. The boyfriend doesn’t have to put up with such a crabby old man as a father-in-law.

When I get married, I’ll check out his family and make sure they’re cool. Like they say, you don’t just marry the man, you marry his family too.

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Sivasakthivelさん,

Please check out this lesson! This lesson is all about the potential form
http://www.japanesepod101.com/index.php?p=1439&cat=17

Sivasakthivelさん,
You are right, the grammar bank is not fully updated. We will work on adding more links to the lessons so that it will be easier to find what you are looking for!
Thank you for your suggestions