Hi there.
I’m studying N2 grammars and some of them have different ways of building them but I don’t quite understand the difference.
For example, with をはじめ to mean “not just this but also…” the book says I can build it also with をはじめとして or をはじめとする+N
And I really don’t get how to use these. Looking at the examples the book provides I don’t see it either (appart from the last one needing a noun after, but it’s also hard for me to understand how to fit this last noun in the meaning of the sentence)
Is there someone who could help me?
Thanks in advance.
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generally speaking, して is conjoining to a sentence, する〇〇 is forming a relative clause. Noun that does something.
〇〇をはじめとする can mean like “commencing/beginning with” or “including” so your sentence XをはじめとするY could be something like “Y, including X”. I feel like the English translation they’ve given is a bit narrow in scope.