Amatuka On a minor note, in Japanese '二人' this, that and the other is common usage while in English 'the pair' would generally sound odd - and 'They' be used in its place.
Amatuka Formed from Verb -masu base + nagara.
beholder while "ながら" is a word used in speaking, ”つつ" is used in writing. if you know some other similar situations regarding other words listed on JGram, please post this kind of explanation, won't you.
anon ながら is used in both in speaking and in writing.
yookoso ながら can only be used when the subject of the two actions is the same; use Vte-iru aida if there are two different people doing two things at the same time. Also, the action expressed by Vm nagara is always secondary to the action expressed in the main clause.
Should not "nomitsu_tsu_kete ita" be changed to "nomitsu_zu_kete ita"?
Vconj + ながら "while doing~"
Vconj + nagara expresses simultaneous actions performed by one subject.
Of the two verbs in a sentence, -nagara is added to the one in which you'd in English use -ing.