Good morning, My first post here - I would like to say "we are allowed to do
exercise outside" - I had a go, is it correct? そとたいぞおうをゆるされる - or do I need
します in there too? What is the structure grammatically for "be allowed to +
verb"? Many thanks in advance, RA
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grammar
To be allowed to do x y z
> そとたいぞおうをゆるされる - or do I need します in there too?

This should be something like

そと **での** たいそう **が** ゆるされる

"taiso" usually means some kind of callisthenics, normally うんどう will mean
exercise in general.

そとでの **うんどう** が ゆるされる

> What is the structure grammatically for "be allowed to + verb"?

ゆるされる makes it sound like you are under someone's control, so you can use for
example してもいい

そとで うんどう **しても いい**
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For the sake of completeness, if you want to state that you got _explicit
permission_ from someone (for example a teacher) to do something, I think that
the causative form could be used. According to this definition (emphasis mine,
source [here](https://kawakawalearningstudio.com/all/how-to-make-and-use-
japanese-causative-form/)):

> Japanese Causative Form is a set of conjugation patterns used to describe
> either making/causing a person (or animal) to do something, or **letting a
> person (or animal) do something**.

Applied to your sentence, it would read:

> [先生{せんせい}は私{わたし}に]外{そと}で運動{うんどう}させます。The teacher makes me do exercise
> outside / The teacher allows me to do exercise outside.

Note that using the causative verb along with くれる makes it clear that the
teacher is _allowing_ me to do exercise outside, rather than _having_ me to do
exercise. I.e., it marks that the causative is used with the meaning"let
someone do" rather than "make/cause someone to do":

> [先生{せんせい}は私{わたし}に]外{そと}で運動{うんどう}させてくれます。 The teacher allows me to do
> exercise outside.
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> "We are allowed to do exercise outside."

You could say:

> 「[外]{そと}で[運動]{うんどう}することが[許]{ゆる}されています。」  
>  「外で運動することを許されています。」

こと is a nominaliser and turns the verb 運動する into the noun form so that it can
be followed by the case particle が or を.

(許され **ている** expresses the _state_ of being permitted. 許される would sound more
like an action or event of being permitted.)

or:

> 「外で運動できます。」 _Lit._ (We) are able to exercise outside.

or, as @Ben suggested:

> 「外で運動してもいいです。」 _Lit._ It's okay if (we) exercise outside. → (We) may
> exercise outside.
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