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〜ておく

ておく marks doing something in preparation — the hotel is booked ahead of the trip.

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How it's used

〜ておく means doing something in advance as preparation: 書いておく 'write down (now, for later)'. The sentence is 忘れないよう、予定を書いておくことにした — 'so I don't forget, I decided to write down my schedule in advance'. Order: object (予定を) → te-form verb (書いて) → auxiliary (おく) → decision (ことにした). The first slot must be 予定を, the object the whole verb chain acts on.

Example questions

旅行の前にホテルを予約し___。

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旅行前に、 ___ 。

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会議までに資料を確認し___必要がある。

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