Thanks for the elaborate answer!　I feel I might have asked the fifth question in a confusing manner after re-reading it just now (it looks very poorly constructed = =;)

To sum it up, TextFugu’s translation for 寿司を食べたはずだった is “I expected to eat sushi”. I thought if you wanted to say “I expected to eat sushi”, you’d say 寿司を食べるはずだった instead.

After reading your response in the link you provided, I think our answers were similar, but read as a different person?

For 寿司を食べたはずだった

Your answer = I had expected you’d eaten sushi (but you’ve just told me you ate something else instead)
My answer = I expected the sushi was eaten

Can it be seen as both depending on the context, or is my response technically / grammatically incorrect?

• This reply was modified 11 years, 4 months ago by  haruharu.

Thanks for the assurance, I will work hard on radicals!