ばかりJust, Only, Nothing but

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  mrnoone

  English translation:
  only
  nothing but

  Structure:
  Verb[ て ] + ばかり
  Noun + ばかり

  Explanation:
  [ばかり can be used together with verb[ている], if so: verb[て] + ばかり + いる is used. for combining sentences ばかりで is used. In case of verb[ている] both ばかりいて and ばかりで can be used.]

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  elynchbell

  A suggestion for @pushindawood and the rest of the team

  N+ばかり and Vて+ばかりいる seem different enough that they should be different grammar points with separate examples.

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  conan

  I couldn’t find it on the site, so I thought I’d mention it since it came up in a book I’m referencing. ばかり with counters. Probably should be its own grammar point. But the book describes it as “counter + ばかり” and means “more or less” or “about”, similar to くらい, but more formal.

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  notgreen

  甘い物をたべてばかりいると、虫歯が増える。[食たべる]
  甘い物をばかりたべていると、虫歯が増える。

  I wonder if the second sentence is also acceptable.

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  mrnoone

  Hey and welcome on the community forums

  Yes, they are both acceptable, though you don’t really need を.

  So:
  甘い物をたべてばかりいると、虫歯が増える。
  甘い物ばかりをたべていると、虫歯が増える。
  are perfect

  But all of those are acceptable:
  甘い物をたべてばかりいると、虫歯が増える。
  甘い物をばかりたべていると、虫歯が増える。(feels less natural)
  甘い物ばかりをたべていると、虫歯が増える。(feels less natural)
  甘い物ばかりたべていると、虫歯が増える。

  I hope it helps,
  Cheers!

  PS
  I love your avatar
  

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  darkness_rising

  The LearnJapanese link looks to be down and redirects to this: http://learnjapanese.becauseofdreams.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

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  Pushindawood

  @darkness_rising Thank you for letting us know so that we could update the Readings section with a different link. Cheers!

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  Johnathan-Weir
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  Neko
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  nekoyama

  The meaning wouldn’t really fit (“all that person chases is dreams”).

  ない indeed doesn’t connect to a subsequent sentence (but that could be addressed, it’s not a limitation of しか…ない specifically).
  There’s also that the negative form of 追いかける is 追いかけない.
  And the particle を is typically left out before しか.

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  Megumin

  I always mix ところ and ばかり and from what I looked up, sometimes they can be interchanged albeit with small different nuances.

  Shouldn’t a hint come up instead of straight up refusing it as wrong or I’m missing something?

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  gyroninja

  Just guessing based off where you posted this question. You can’t replace ばかり with ところ on this grammar point because Verb［て］+ ところ isn’t a thing afaik.

  I feel like there usually aren’t hints for ungrammatical alternatives.

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  Megumin

  Probably I posted this on the wrong grammar point, I tried to avoid creating a new one. Quoting from this website:

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  gyroninja

  Well I just checked a single sentence for the たばかり grammar point and it gave a warning / hint when attempting to use たところ.

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  Megumin

  You are right, I guess I just either hit one that doesn’t have it (highly unlikely) or I used it the wrong way (more likely).

  Just tried it the other way around and it also gave me the warning/hint.