Noun + のよう + copula is only for present tense. For all other tenses it's Noun + よう + copula. あの人は学生 + の + ようだ。→ 学生でなないようだ 彼はその学校の学生だったようだ。→ 彼はその学校の学生ではなかったようだ
Sorry for the late reply - I wanted to do some confirmation myself before I adjusted this.
1. Fixed the na-adjective entry. 2. Added notes about the present/past tense.
If you have some time, try suggestng some model sentences (there's a small form below the model sentence that allows you to search the site's database to find sentences) - that would help me fill out the number of examples so users can understand more easily. If you have some time to do this, I'd be really happy :)
I'm still a bit insecure to actually write my own sentences. ^^;; After I study some more I'll start working on it because I know it's necessary to pass the level I'm currently at.
Well, what I was referring to is not writing your own sentences, but just picking ones out from the 100,000+ sentences in the site's library. Click on the 'model sentence' tab above here and you'll see the search form. Then, you just have to search for something like "ようだった" (just a piece of Japanese is fine) to get sentences that look good for the grammar point.
Maybe it's just me, but for some reason whenever I try to search for model sentences, I often get "There are no example sentences for this search string."
Maybe this blog post will help?
Jpn version:
http://nihongodaybyday.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html
English version:
http://nihognodaybydayenglish.blogspot.jp/2013/07/sou-rashii-you-and-mitai.html
[quote author=lilisin link=topic_id=4929&post_id=30387#rmsg_30387 date=1379541246]Maybe this blog post will help?
Jpn version:
http://nihongodaybyday.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html
English version:
http://nihognodaybydayenglish.blogspot.jp/2013/07/sou-rashii-you-and-mitai.html[/quote]
thanks a lot!!!
Looking through my textbook I find that #2 is incomplete. It also works with ようだ and ような.
今日は暑くて、夏のようだ。
子供のような服を着ている
My textbook says it's used to liken sth. which is different from #1, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I need to know how to handle this in the grammar lists.