You learned the patterns of these conjugations of syllables before MASU with songs in Lesson 12. Please review that. "Group 2" is the verbs that have the vowel E in the syllables before MASU.

You can’t even have a sentence or question without a verb! That’s how amazingly important verbs are. The workers are working. Working is a doing word. They work upon this building all day long.

In the clip, the teacher can be seen leading his class in a fun and expressive lesson about verbs. He sings and dances along to a song that explains the functions of various verbs. Instead of a ...

About other ways of making TE-form verbs, we'll explain in the next lesson. TE-form verbs may be the first hurdle in learning Japanese. Let's do our best to clear this hurdle.