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I"m trying to translate the following sentence into English for a assignment
in my translation workshop class.

僕は身体を **起こし** , あらためて彼女に視線を持っていった.

The bolded part has me confused due to the strange shi ending; which I first
read as the shi clause with the term 起こす, but realized this was incorrect due
to the predicate (起こ) not being in the plain/short form. Jisho.org says that
起こし is a suffix, which I believe to be incorrect in this instance as there is
a を particle behind the 起こし.

Thus, what does 起こし mean in the above sentence, and how do you know this?
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What is the meaning of 起こし in this sentence?
It's a conjugation formed by taking a verb in ます form, then removing the ます.

Example conjugation:

  * 起こす：起こし ~~ます~~ ＝起こし
  * 生まれる：生まれ ~~ます~~ ＝生まれ

Combining sentences with that conjugation basically means "and". It's similar
to combining sentences with て, though there are differences in usage.

Example sentence:

> ジョンは日本で **生まれ** 、十歳まで日本の学校で勉強した。
>
> John was **born** in Japan **and** studied at a Japanese school until he was
> ten.

I recommend page 556 of "A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar" as a
reference for the details of this grammar form.

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To answer your question directly:

> Thus, what does 起こし mean in the above sentence, and how do you know this?

It's just a continuative conjugation of the verb 起こす, which means "to raise",
and that verb is being applied to 身体. I know this because that's the
dictionary definition. The fact that it ends in し、 just means "and..." before
talking about the rest of the sentence.
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