The picture meme below pretty much sums up Japanese grammar for the English speaker.  Kim saw this recently on Facebook.  She often describes Japanese grammar as being backward and twisted.  For example, if Kim were to say, “I went to the store with my husband yesterday.”  In Japanese it would be, “Yesterday I store to husband with went.”  The verb is always at the end of the sentence.  Sometimes when Kim gets to the end of the sentence, she can’t remember what she was trying to say!  HA! Now you know how to pray for her and her language ability. She struggles with the language and finds it very difficult to have any kind of extended conversation with someone.  Tim does not have this problem since he grew up speaking Japanese. If someone is talking with him on the phone and then meets him in person, they are always surprised to see that he is a foreigner!