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Sometimes when I see verbs in a sentence that uses it as a subject or noun
rather than an event or verb which explains what happens in a sentence. E.g.:

>   * 私は食べるのが好きです。
>   * 金曜日、日本へ行っては思う。
>

In the two examples,the verbs are expressed in different ways but both are
treated as nouns. In the first example 「食べる」 is expressed as 「食べるのが」 but 「行く」
is expressed as 「行って」 in the second example.

What is the difference between these two sentences?
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What is the difference between 〜て and 〜の？
I will assume you already have a relatively good understanding of the verb+の
form as a nominaliser. It is similar to verb+こと.

Regarding ては, have you come across the verb+てはいけない structure before, meaning
"do not do x"? This is probably the most common usage of the ては form, at least
for beginners. It is essentially saying "if you do x, it will not do". In
other words, ては is yet another conditional form.

From A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar. p.463:

> The conjunction TE WA is used to connect an action or state presented as a
> topic and a negative comment.

Examples:

> そんなに勉強しては、体をこわしますよ。 = If you study that hard you will ruin your health.
>
> あの男は来ては邪魔になる。 = If he comes he will get in our way

So this is the theory behind it. I'm not sure about the example you gave
though, I wonder if it should be 金曜日、日本へ行っては **どう** 思う？ And if that works,
whether it has a negative or cynical nuance as per the above explanation from
ADIJG.
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私は食べるのが好きです means "I like eating" and 食べるの functions as a noun but 行って(は) as
in 金曜日、日本へ行っては思う is not a noun but an adverb or a verb in an adverbial form,
and it means "Every friday I go to Japan and think".

As for 金曜日、日本へ行っては思う, first, は is not a particle to denote the subject of the
sentence here, so the sentence doesn't mean "the act of going make me think"
or something. This は following a て form means you automatically repeat those
sequential actions of going and thinking.

  * 思う : I think
  * 日本へ行って、思う : going to Japan, I think (there)

Now 行っては… means the actions above occur repetitively, and if you regard the
preceding action as a condition for the following one, you can translate it
into "Every time I go to Japan, I think".
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