We decided to start the game on the defensive.

He hit his occipital bone hard.

He likes to take a walk in the park at dusk.

The four tones of Chinese, namely ping, shang, qu, and ru, I particularly find the rising tone (jōshō) difficult.

This chair is really comfortable to sit on.

A pen fell from his notebook.

He thinks of his garden as a paradise.

It was our dream to visit this beautiful paradise.

He said that listening to music is his greatest pleasure.

The company went bankrupt due to the economic crisis.