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5.4.2. What is the difference between ringo ga tabetai and ringo wo tabetai?
Both of these statements mean `I want to eat an apple'. They are both
grammatically correct, and the use of wo rather than
ga is not a new phenomenon. There has been no general
agreement as to the difference in nuance between the two. It seems
most likely from this that there is very little.
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